Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in eighteenth-century Britain
Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Enlightened Dissent: an introduction Knud Haakonssen 2. The emergence of Rational Dissent R. K. Webb 3. Rational Dissent in early eighteenth-century Ireland M. A. Stewart 4. The Enlightenment, politics and providence: some Scottish and English comparisons Martin Fitzpatrick 5. The contribution of the Dissenting academy to the emergence of Rational Dissent David L. Wykes 6. 'A set of men powerful enough in many things': Rational Dissent and political opposition in England, 1770-1790 John Seed 7. Law, lawyers and Rational Dissent Wilfrid Prest 8. The nexus between theology and political doctrine in Church and Dissent A. M. C. Waterman 9. Anglican latitudarianism, Rational Dissent and political radicalism in the late eighteenth century John Gascoigne 10. The State as highwayman: from candour to rights Alan Saunders 11. Priestley on politics, progress and moral theology Alan Tapper 12. Rational piety R. K. Webb 13. New Jerusalems: prophecy, Dissent and radical culture in England, 1786-1830 Iain McCalman Index of names.
Author: Knud Haakonssen
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3194568458