The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment - William R. Everdell

The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment

From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century
Buch | Hardcover
XIII, 449 Seiten
2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-69761-7 (ISBN)
128,39 inkl. MwSt

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures include Muhammad Ibn abd al-Wahhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel Ba'al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of the conflicted relationship between the "evangelical" movements in all three Abrahamic religions and the ideas of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century, the book reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and forward to the 21st for the legacy of these movements. This text appeals to students and researchers in many fields, including Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while also appealing to the interested lay reader.



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William R. Everdell is an American teacher and author.  His three prior books have also been on the history of ideas.  He has written articles on French historical studies and History of European Ideas, and is the author of numerous reviews in journals including Studies in the Novel and the New York Times Book Review.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment I.- Chapter 3: Christian Antecedents.- Chapter 4: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment II.- Chapter 5: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment III.- Chapter 6: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment IV.- Chapter 7: Jewish Antecedents and the Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment V.- Chapter 8: Muslim Antecedents.- Chapter 9: The Crucible of the Counter-Enlightenment VI.- Chapter 10: Conclusion, Ecstasy and the decay of Ecstasy.

"The book is faultlessly well organized." (J. E. May, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, Vol. 35 (2), October, 2021)

“The book is faultlessly well organized.” (J. E. May, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, Vol. 35 (2), October, 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
Zusatzinfo XIII, 449 p. 36 illus., 16 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 853 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte Abrahamic religions • evangelical Protestantism • Hasidic Judaism • History of Religions • intellectual history of religion in the 18th century • Jansenist Catholicism • philosophical Counter-Enlightenment and Romanticism • religion in the 18th Century • Salafist and Wahhabi Islam
ISBN-10 3-030-69761-4 / 3030697614
ISBN-13 978-3-030-69761-7 / 9783030697617
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