| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 328 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Philip Nord -- Past belief : the fall and rise of ecclesiastical history in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton -- Jacob Sasportas and Jewish Messianism / Yaacob Dweck -- Doubt and unbelief in the early modern era : Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Spanish tradition / Stefania Pastore -- Exeuntes de corpore qui sumus? "out of the body, who are we?" Augustine, the care of the dead, and a clash of representations / Peter Brown -- In the church and at home: approaches to saints in colonial Mexico / Caterina Pizzigoni -- An ordinary Soviet death : scientific atheism, socialist rituals, and life's final question / Victoria Smolkin -- True believers in the modern Middle East / Max Weiss -- The reformation era and the secularization of knowledge / Brad S. Gregory -- Contesting secularization : the idea of a normative deficit of modernity after Max Weber / Peter E. Gordon -- Religious minorities and the anxieties of an Islamic identity in Pakistan / Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- Belief in science : on the neuroscience of religion / Katja Guenther |
| Summary |
This book offers a more nuanced understanding of the origins of secularist thought, demonstrating how Reformed Christianity and the Enlightenment were not the sole vessels of a worldview based on rationalism and individual autonomy |
| Notes |
"Publications in partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University"--Page opposite title page |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion -- History.
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Secularism -- History
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Religion -- History -- 21st century
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Secularism -- History -- 21st century
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religious history.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Religion
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Secularism
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nord, Philip G., 1950- editor.
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Guenther, Katja, editor.
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Weiss, Max, 1977- editor.
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Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.
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| ISBN |
9780691194165 |
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0691194165 |
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