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Summary
Summary
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 heart-felt, 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.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations and maps | p. ix |
List of contributors | p. x |
Acknowledgements | p. xiv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Part I Church, State, and Society in the European World, 1660-1780 | |
1 Continental Catholic Europe | p. 15 |
2 Continental Protestant Europe | p. 33 |
3 Great Britain and Ireland | p. 54 |
4 The church in economy and society | p. 72 |
Part II Christian Life in the European World, 1660-1780 | |
5 The Catholic clergy in Europe | p. 89 |
6 The Protestant clergies in the European world | p. 109 |
7 Reaching audiences: Sermons and oratory in Europe | p. 128 |
8 Christian education | p. 147 |
9 Christianity and gender | p. 166 |
10 Popular religion | p. 185 |
11 Jewish-Christian relations | p. 208 |
12 Architecture and Christianity | p. 226 |
Part III Movements and Challenges | |
13 Christianity and the rise of science, 1660-1815 | p. 251 |
14 The Enlightenment critique of Christianity | p. 265 |
15 The Christian Enlightenment | p. 283 |
16 Jansenism and the international suppression of the Jesuits | p. 302 |
17 Evangelical awakenings in the North Atlantic world | p. 329 |
18 Toleration and movements of Christian reunion, 1660-1789 | p. 348 |
Part IV Christian Developments in the Non-European World | |
19 Christianity in Iberian America | p. 373 |
20 British and French North America to 1765 | p. 392 |
21 Christianity in Africa | p. 411 |
22 Christianity in south and south-east Asia | p. 433 |
23 Christianity in East Asia | p. 451 |
24 Christian encounters with other world religions | p. 475 |
Part V Revolution and the Christian World | |
25 The American Revolution and religion, 1765-1815 | p. 497 |
26 Christianity and the campaign against slavery and the slave trade | p. 517 |
27 The French Revolution and religion to 1794 | p. 536 |
28 The French Revolution and religion, 1795-1815 | p. 556 |
29 Movements of Christian awakening in revolutionary Europe, 1790-1815 | p. 575 |
Chronology | p. 596 |
Bibliography | p. 603 |
Index | p. 652 |