Enlightenment and Religion
Subtitle: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ideas in Context)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521029872
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Europe - Great Britain - General; History & Theory - General; Dissenters, Religious--Great Britain--History; Dissenters, Religious--Great Britain--History--18th century; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: A quarter of a century ago Peter Gay presented the Enlightenment as 'the rise of modern paganism'.