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      • Volume 7: Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660–1815
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2008
      December 2006
      ISBN:
      9781139054126
      9780521816052
      9781107423695
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521816052
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.237kg, 694 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1kg, 694 Pages
      • Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Religion
      Series:
      Cambridge History of Christianity
      Subjects:
      Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Regional History after 1500, Religion, Church History
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    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Religion
    Series:
    Cambridge History of Christianity
    Subjects:
    Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Regional History after 1500, Religion, Church History
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    During the tumultuous period of world history from 1660 to 1815, three complex movements combined to bring a fundamental cultural reorientation to Europe and North America, and ultimately to the wider world. The Enlightenment transformed views of nature and of the human capacity to master nature. The religious reawakenings brought a revival of heartfelt, experiential Christianity. Finally revolution, the political and social upheavals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, challenged established ideas of divine-right monarchies and divinely ordained social hierarchies, and promoted more democratic government, notions of human rights and religious toleration. A new religious climate emerged, in which people were more likely to look to their own feelings and experiences for the basis of their faith. During this same period, Christianity spread widely around the world as a result of colonialism and missions, and responded in diverse ways to its encounters with other cultures and religious traditions.

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    'This volume is as excellent as others in the series, representing what is best in current scholarship on the histories of Christianity.'

    Source: Church Times

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