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  • Volume 7: Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660–1815
  • Edited by Stewart J. Brown, University of Edinburgh, Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2008
Print publication year:
2006
Online ISBN:
9781139054126
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521816052
Collection:
Cambridge Histories - Religion
Series:
Cambridge History of Christianity
Subjects:
Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Regional History after 1500, Religion, Church History
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Book description

During the tumultuous period of world history from 1660 to 1815, three complex movements combined to bring a fundamental cultural reorientation to Europe and North America, and ultimately to the wider world. The Enlightenment transformed views of nature and of the human capacity to master nature. The religious reawakenings brought a revival of heartfelt, experiential Christianity. Finally revolution, the political and social upheavals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, challenged established ideas of divine-right monarchies and divinely ordained social hierarchies, and promoted more democratic government, notions of human rights and religious toleration. A new religious climate emerged, in which people were more likely to look to their own feelings and experiences for the basis of their faith. During this same period, Christianity spread widely around the world as a result of colonialism and missions, and responded in diverse ways to its encounters with other cultures and religious traditions.

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'This volume is as excellent as others in the series, representing what is best in current scholarship on the histories of Christianity.'

Source: Church Times

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