Anglican enlightenment : Orientalism, religion and politics in England and its empire, 1648-1715

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Anglican enlightenment : Orientalism, religion and politics in England and its empire, 1648-1715

Title remainder

Orientalism, religion and politics in England and its empire, 1648-1715

Statement of responsibility

William Bulman, Lehigh University

Creator

• Bulman, William J., 1979-

Subject

• Christianity and politics -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Church of England -- History -- 17th century
• England -- Church history -- 17th century
• England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
• Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714
• Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century

Language

eng

Summary

This is an original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the religious conflicts that rocked England and its empire under the later Stuarts. In a series of vignettes that move between Europe and North Africa, William J. Bulman shows that this period witnessed not a struggle for and against new ideas and greater freedoms, but a battle between several novel schemes for civil peace. Bulman considers anew the most apparently conservative force in post-Civil War English history: the conformist leadership of the Church of England. He demonstrates that the church's historical scholarship, social science, pastoral care and political practice amounted not to a culturally backward spectacle of intolerance, but to a campaign for stability drawn from the frontiers of erudition and globalization. In seeking to sever the link between zeal and chaos, the church and its enemies were thus united in an Enlightenment project, but bitterly divided over what it meant in practice--

Member of

• Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Cambridge studies in early modern British history

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Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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• Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Cambridge books online