Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700

Investigates the idea of Civil Religion in the works of canonical thinkers including those, like William Penn, not previously with this concept.

List of contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World - Adam Morton & Rachel Hammersley
1. Civil Religion: Two Traditions - Mark Goldie
2. A Mutable Wall of Separation? Reconfiguring Ecclesiastical Civility, Mixed Polity, and Civil and Sacred Matter in Late Elizabethan England - Polly Ha
3. Alexander Leighton and the Erastian fabric of early Stuart Puritanism - Esther Counsell
4. Reading Machiavellian Civil Religion in Early Modern Britain - Charlotte McCallum
5. Republicans and Independents: Debating 'National Religion' in Cromwellian England - John Coffey
6. Henry Stubbe and Civil Religion - Connor Robinson
7. Civil Religion on the Ground: Theory and Practice in Early Pennsylvania - Andrew R. Murphy & Christie L. Maloyed
8. John Locke and Civil Religion - John Marshall
9. Civil Religion and Early Modern Views of the Anglo-Saxon Church - Jacqueline Rose

Bibliography
Index

Product details

• Assisted by: Rachel Hammersley (Editor), Adam Morton (Editor), Adam (Senior Lecturer) Morton (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2024
• EAN: 9781783277841
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-784-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 594 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works