{"product_id":"knowledge-and-belief-in-america-enlightenment-traditions-and-modern-religious-thought-hardback-9780521550116","title":"Knowledge and Belief in America; Enlightenment Traditions and Modern Religious Thought (Hardback) 9780521550116","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKnowledge and Belief in America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEnlightenment Traditions and Modern Religious Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume of essays explores the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam M. Shea (Edited by), Peter A. Huff (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521550116, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 September 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e374 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.1 x 3.4 cm, 0.695 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This volume deserves serious attention.  It deepens our understanding of American Enlightenment and religious tradition.\"    Derek S. Jeffreys, Anglican Theological Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Enlightenment values of individual autonomy, democracy, and secularizing reason conflict with the religious traditions of community, authority, and traditional learning. Yet in American history the two heritages have been intertwined since the colonial era:  the development of the Enlightenment has been influenced by community-based thinking and religious institutions have adopted to an extent critical methods and a democratic ethos even within their own walls. This volume unites the work of a distinguished group of theologians, historians, literary critics, and philosophers to explore the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. The Enlightenment's effect on the major religious traditions, including the Catholic Church, Evangelical Protestantism, and Judaism, is examined. Also highlighted is religion in the thinking of such representative figures as Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Lincoln, Santayana, and the Pragmatists, Stevens and Eliot.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Enlightenment and Religious Traditions: 1. Knowledge and belief in American public life\u003cbr\u003e 2. Enamored against thee by these strange minds: recovering the relations between the Enlightenment in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literary culture\u003cbr\u003e 3. The rise and long life of the Protestant Enlightenment in America\u003cbr\u003e 4. American Catholicism and the Enlightenment ethos\u003cbr\u003e 5. Organizing the past\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Enlightenment and Representative Figures: 6. Puritanism and Enlightenment:  Edwards and Franklin\u003cbr\u003e 7. Emerson's constitutional amending:  reading 'fate'\u003cbr\u003e 8. Lincoln and modernity\u003cbr\u003e 9. Stuck between debility and demand:  religion and Enlightenment traditions among the pragmatists\u003cbr\u003e 10.  Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and the space between them\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The End of the Enlightenment: 11. The Enlightenment is not over\u003cbr\u003e 12. Modernity, anti-modernity, and post-modernity in the American setting\u003cbr\u003e 13. Are we beyond the Enlightenment horizon?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46065972412696,"sku":"9780521550116","price":81.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521550116i.jpg?v=1691408453","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/knowledge-and-belief-in-america-enlightenment-traditions-and-modern-religious-thought-hardback-9780521550116","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}