Civil religion in the early modern Anglophone world, 1550-1700

• Titel: Civil religion in the early modern Anglophone world, 1550-1700
• Mitwirkende: Hammersley, Rachel [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Morton, Adam [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Adam Morton and Rachel Hammersley
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Verlag: The Boydell Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 283 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; volume 50
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-1-80543-298-2
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• K10plus-PPN: 1886205612
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
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Abstract

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

Abstract

Front cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World -- 1. Civil Religion: Two Traditions -- 2. A Mutable Wall of Separation? -- 3. Alexander Leighton and the Erastian fabric of early Stuart Puritanism -- 4. Reading Machiavellian Civil Religion in Early Modern Britain -- 5. Republicans and Independents: Debating 'National Religion' in Cromwellian England -- 6. Henry Stubbe and Civil Religion -- 7. Civil Religion on the Ground: Theory and Practice in Early Pennsylvania -- 8. John Locke and Civil Religion -- 9. Civil Religion and Early Modern Views of the Anglo-Saxon Church -- Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History.

Abstract

Civil Religion - a tradition of political thought that has argued for a close connection between religion and the state - made an important contribution to the development of religious and political thought at key moments of early modern British political and colonial history. As this volume shows, it was at work not just during the Enlightenment, but within a much wider periodical framework: the Reformation, the rise of the Puritan movement, the conflict over the Stuart state and church, the English Revolution, and the formation of key American colonies in the eighteenth century. Advocates of Civil Religion tried to reconcile a national church with religious toleration and design a constitution capable of preventing the church from interfering with affairs of state.The volume investigates the idea of Civil Religion in the works of canonical thinkers in the history of political thought (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau), in the works of those who have been recognized as shaping political ideas (Hooker, Prynne et al.) during this period, and in the advocacy of those perhaps not previously associated with Civil Religion (William Penn). Although Civil Religion was often posited as a pragmatic solution to constitutional and ecclesiological problems created by the Reformation and the English Revolution, they also reveal that such pragmatism was not at odds with religious conviction or ideals. Civil Religion certainly enhanced citizenship in this period, but it did so in ways which depended on the truth claims of Protestantism, not on their domestication to politics