'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23399320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Harrison (0000-0002-4048-2409, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Publication date | 1990-11-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | 'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511627972 |
| OpenAlex | W2118661201 |
| Open Library | OL34437360M |
| ISBN | 9780511627972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 178 |
This study examines the changes which took place in the understanding of 'religion' and 'the religions' during the Enlightenment in England, the period when the decisive break with Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance notions of religion occurred. Dr Harrison's view is that the principles of the English Enlightenment not only made a special contribution to our modern understanding of what religion is, but they pioneered, in addition, the 'scientific', or non-religious approach, to religious phenomena. During this period a crisis of authority in the Church necessitated a rational enquiry into the various forms of Christianity, and in addition, into the claims of all religions. This led to a concept of 'religion' (based on 'natural' theology) which could link together the apparently disparate religious beliefs and practices found in the empirical religions.
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art history · Christianity · Comparative religion · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology) · Period (music) · Sociology · The Renaissance · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
Religion as a lifeworld
Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England
Neither Zarathushtra nor Pope
Polemical Comparisons in Discourses of Religious Diversity
Enlightenment and Religion
God does not act arbitrarily, or interpose unnecessarily
Conceito De Religião
Religion and Politics
Obeah Acts
Tolerância E Tradições Históricas Da Diferença
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism (1660–1720)
Smashing Statues, Dancing Sivas
The Fowls of Heaven and the Fate of the Earth
Crossing the Line
Playing Language Games and Performing Rituals
British views on religion and religions in the age of William and Mary
The Heathen in his Blindness
Inside, Outside and the Space in-between
Dwelling on the Borders
Évangélisme et Lumières
Multidisciplinary, Comparative, and Interactive
«I remember a Mahometan story of Ahmed ben Edris»
A noção de crença e suas implicações para a modernidade
Robert Boyle on the diversity of religions
Sacred and Profane
Dislodging "Embedded" Religion
The Religious System of Global Society
Incurably Religious? Consensus Gentium and the Cultural Universality of Religion
Empire's Present
Seventeenth-Century Catholic Polemic and the Rise of Cultural Rationalism
The Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected
Godless Savages and Superstitious Dogs
From Sukkot to Saturnalia
Thomist Scholarship and Plagiarism in the Early Enlightenment
The Forgotten Proof
From Sacred History to the History of Religion
Religion after the Restoration
"Globalization and the Gods, or the Political Theology of "Race
A Religião que a Modernidade Produz
Missionaries and Morals
Religiones, teologías y colonialidad
History of Religion as Critique of Religion?
The Sacred and Power
Fields of Tension
Transcendence as Reflexive Sacredness
Religious Experience and the Theory of Signs
Ritual and the Sacred
Multiple Forms of Ideal Formation or Process of Disenchantment?
Re-conceptualizing Equality in the Work Place
Stereotypes and Stereotyping in Early Modern England
Religiousness and Spirituality
Religion and Violence
Church Attendance in the United States
Conclusion
Religion and the New Immigrants
Dis/location
Latina Empowerment, Border Realities, and Faith-Based Organizations
Beyond the Synagogue Walls
Religion and Health
Escaping the Procustean Bed
Historicizing the Secularization Debate
Studying Religion, Making it Sociological
Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent
The Dynamics of Religious Economies
The Ritual Roots of Society and Culture
Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere
Mapping the Moral Order
Historicizing ‘Religion’ and ‘the Secular’
Religion and Political Behavior
“Worldly” or “Other Worldly”?
Religion and Spirituality
Demographic Methods for the Sociology of Religion
In Rhetoric and Practice
The Sociology of Religion in Late Modernity
The Evolution of the Sociology of Religion
Social Forms of Religion and Religions in Contemporary Global Society
The Power of the Sacred
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
Constituting Religion
Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration
Evangelical awakenings in the North Atlantic world
Christianity and the campaign against slavery and the slave trade
Systematizing Religion
The Politics of Monotheism
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
Religious Socialization
Religious Identities and Religious Institutions
Religion and Globalization
Religion, Faith-Based Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Justice
“The Quick, The Dead, And The Yet Unborn”
Jansenism and the international suppression of the Jesuits
Religion and Nationalism in the Jewish and Zionist Context
Christianity in Africa
Late Secularism
Cameralism and the sciences of the state
Political languages of the French Revolution
Encyclopedias and the diffusion of knowledge
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
A Journey of the “Straight Way” or the “Roundabout Path”
Social contract theory and its critics
| Unique citing works | 178 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,39 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 137 |