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GtrsRGr8 · 01-10-2016, 11:10 PM

Title: The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity.
Format: Pdf.
Author(s): S.J. Barnett.
Publisher: Manchester University Press.
Pages: 244.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 4.0 (1) at Amazon; 3.75 (4) at GoodReads.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at Amazon if available there: $10.91 (used--"good").
Book Description (Amazon):
This title offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a radical challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity. For despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant Deist movement that formed the "intellectual solvent" of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched.
Comments: Free through Creative Commons license. Read more about it here.
URL: http://oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=341381 (direct).

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Get this FREE Pdf from Manchester University Press about the Enlightenment in Europe. Title: *The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity. Format:* Pdf. Author(s): S.J. Barnett. Publisher: Manchester University Press. Pages: 244. Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 4.0 (1) at Amazon; 3.75 (4) at GoodReads. Price: *$0.00. Lowest Price at Amazon if available there:* $10.91 (used--"good"). Book Description (Amazon): This title offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a radical challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity. For despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant Deist movement that formed the "intellectual solvent" of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched. Comments: Free through Creative Commons license. Read more about it here. URL: http://oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=341381 (direct).