The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 7, Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660-1815

Sampul Depan
Stewart J. Brown, Timothy Tackett
Cambridge University Press, 7 Des 2006 - 678 halaman
The Cambridge History of Christianity offers a comprehensive chronological account of the development of Christianity in all its aspects - theological, intellectual, social, political, regional, global - from its beginnings to the present day. Each volume makes a substantial contribution in its own right to the scholarship of its period and the complete History constitutes a major work of academic reference. Far from being merely a history of Western European Christianity and its offshoots, the History aims to provide a global perspective. Eastern and Coptic Christianity are given full consideration from the early period onwards, and later, African, Far Eastern, New World, South Asian and other non-European developments in Christianity receive proper coverage. The volumes cover popular piety and non-formal expressions of Christian faith and treat the sociology of Christian formation, worship and devotion in a broad cultural context. The question of relations between Christianity and other major faiths is also kept in sight throughout. The History will provide an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike. How did Christianity fare during the tumultuous period in world history from 1660 to 1815? This volume examines issues of church, state, society and Christian life, in Europe and in the wider world. It explores the intellectual and political movements that challenged Christianity: from the rise of science and the Enlightenment to the French Revolution with its state-supported programme of de-Christianisation. It also considers the movements of Christian renewal and reawakening during this period, and Christianity's encounters with world religions in colonial and missionary settings. Book jacket.

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Introduction
1
PART I
13
Continental Protestant Europe
33
Great Britain and Ireland
54
The church in economy and society
72
The Protestant clergies in the European world
109
Sermons and oratory in Europe
128
Christian education
147
Christianity in Iberian America
373
British and French North America to 1765
392
Christianity in Africa
411
Christianity in south and southeast Asia
433
Christianity in East Asia
451
The American Revolution and religion 17651815
497
Christianity and the campaign against slavery and the slave trade
517
The French Revolution and religion to 1794
536

Christianity and gender
166
Popular religion
185
Architecture and Christianity 226
226
Christianity and the rise of science 16601815
251
The Enlightenment critique of Christianity
265
The French Revolution and religion 17951815
556
Movements of Christian awakening in revolutionary Europe
575
Chronology
596
Bibliography
603
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Stewart J. Brown is Professor of Ecclesiatical History at the University of Edinburgh. His many publications include The National Churches of England, Ireland and Scotland 1801-1846 (2001). Timothy Tackett is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His many publications include When the King Took Flight (2003).

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