Enlightenment and Religion
Subtitle: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ideas in Context)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521560603
Subjects: Christianity; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1700 to c 1800; History & Theory - General; Religion (Specific Aspects); Political Science; History - General History; Rationalists; Politics/International Relations; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Dissenters, Religious--Great Britain--History; Dissenters, Religious--Great Britain--History--18th century; History / Great Britain; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science-History & Theory - General; Enlightenment; 18th century; Dissenters, Religious; Great Britain; History
First sentence: A quarter of a century ago Peter Gay presented the Enlightenment as 'the rise of modern paganism'.