Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800
ISBN: 9781787448476
Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Boydell & Brewer
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This innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion, despite the famous claim of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christians professed an uncivil faith.

Walsh Ashley :

ASHLEY WALSH is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University.


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