Title Anglican enlightenment : Orientalism, religion and politics in England and its empire, 1648-1715 / William Bulman

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Cambridge studies in early modern British history Contents Introduction: from learning to liberalism? -- Part I. Foundations: 1. Literature and violence; 2. Empires, churches and republics of the globe -- Part II. Culture: 3. Histories; 4. Universals -- Part III. Religion: 5. The propagation of the faith; 6. The worship of God -- Part IV. Politics: 7. Restoration; 8. Revolution -- Conclusion: from pastor to spectator Summary "An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the religious conflicts that rocked England and its empire under the later Stuarts. In a series of vignettes that move between Europe and North Africa, William Bulman shows that this period witnessed not a struggle for and against new ideas and greater freedoms, but a battle between several novel schemes for civil peace. Bulman considers anew the most apparently conservative force in post- Civil War English history: the conformist leadership of the Church of England. He demonstrates that the Church's historical scholarship, social science, pastoral care, and political practice amounted not to a culturally-backward spectacle of intolerance, but to a campaign for stability drawn from the frontiers of erudition and globalisation. In seeking to sever the link between zeal and chaos, the church and its enemies were thus united in an Enlightenment project, but bitterly divided over what it meant in practice"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 16, 2015) Subject Church of England -- History -- 17th century Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century. SUBJECT Catholic Church fast Church of England fast Subject Christianity and politics -- England -- History -- 17th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Christianity and politics Intellectual life Religion Politik SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043268 England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302 Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056789 Subject England Great Britain England Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139683609 1139683608 9781316319611 131631961X

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