Anglican Enlightenment - Orientalism, Religion and Politics in England and Its Empire, 16481715

An original interpretation of the early Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire.

List of contents

Introduction: from learning to liberalism?; Part I. Foundations: 1. Literature and violence; 2. Empires, churches and republics of the globe; Part II. Culture: 3. Histories; 4. Universals; Part III. Religion: 5. The propagation of the faith; 6. The worship of God; Part IV. Politics: 7. Restoration; 8. Revolution; Conclusion: from pastor to spectator; Select bibliography; Index.

About the author

William J. Bulman is an assistant professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he teaches European history and global studies. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from Princeton University, where he received the Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship and other honors. Between 2009 and 2012 he held research fellowships at Vanderbilt and Yale. His doctoral work was supported by the Mellon Foundation and the US Department of Education, and in 2012 he was among the two youngest scholars in eight disciplines to be awarded a Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Grant from the Historical Society and the Templeton Foundation. His articles on the intellectual, religious, political, and cultural history of England and its empire have appeared in Past and Present, The Journal of British Studies, History Compass, and other venues. In addition to the themes covered in Anglican Enlightenment, his current research examines the changing nature of political practice and decision-making in the British Atlantic world between the late sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is also co-editor of God in the Enlightenment (with Robert G. Ingram, 2016).

Summary

An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire. William J. Bulman provides a novel account of how the onset of globalization and the end of Europe's religious wars transformed English intellectual, religious and political life.

Product details

• Authors: William Bulman, William J Bulman, William J. Bulman, William J. (Lehigh University Bulman, Bulman William J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2015
• EAN: 9781107073685
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07368-5
• No. of pages: 357
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; England, History of Ideas, European History, Christianity, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Church history