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Anglican Enlightenment

By: William J. Bulman

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An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire. William J. Bulman provides a novel account of how the onset of globalization and the end of Europe's religious wars transformed English intellectual, religious and political life.

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1107073685

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The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire

By: William J. Bulman

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The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire

By: William J. Bulman

This expansive history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. Majority votes had, of course, been held prior to 1642, but not since antiquity had they been held with any frequency by a popular assembly with responsibility for the fate of a nation. The crucial moment in the global triumph of majority rule was its embrace by the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its empire. William J. Bulman analyzes its sudden appearance in the English House of Commons and its adoption by the elected assemblies of Britain's Atlantic colonies in the age of the English, Glorious, and American Revolutions. These events made it overwhelmingly likely that the United Kingdom, the United States, and their former dependencies would become and remain fundamentally majoritarian polities. Providing an insightful commentary on the state of democratic governance today, this study sheds light on the nature, promise, and perils of majority rule.

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110890467X

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Memorials of the Preston Guilds. Illustrating the Manner in which the Guild Merchant has been Held in the Borough from the Earliest on Record Until the Last Guild in 1862

By: William Alexander Abram

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Memorials of the Preston Guilds. Illustrating the Manner in which the Guild Merchant has been Held in the Borough from the Earliest on Record Until the Last Guild in 1862

By: William Alexander Abram

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385460077

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The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment

From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century

By: William R. Everdell

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The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment

From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century

By: William R. Everdell

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures include Muḥammad Ibn abd al-Waḥhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel Ba’al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of the conflicted relationship between the “evangelical” movements in all three Abrahamic religions and the ideas of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century, the book reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and forward to the 21st for the legacy of these movements. This text appeals to students and researchers in many fields, including Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while also appealing to the interested lay reader.

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Springer Nature

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3030697622

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9783030697624

The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire

By: William J. Bulman

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Anglican Enlightenment

Orientalism, Religion and Politics in England and its Empire, 1648–1715

By: William J. Bulman

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Orientalism, Religion and Politics in England and its Empire, 1648–1715

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This is an original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the religious conflicts that rocked England and its empire under the later Stuarts. In a series of vignettes that move between Europe and North Africa, William J. Bulman shows that this period witnessed not a struggle for and against new ideas and greater freedoms, but a battle between several novel schemes for civil peace. Bulman considers anew the most apparently conservative force in post-Civil War English history: the conformist leadership of the Church of England. He demonstrates that the church's historical scholarship, social science, pastoral care and political practice amounted not to a culturally backward spectacle of intolerance, but to a campaign for stability drawn from the frontiers of erudition and globalization. In seeking to sever the link between zeal and chaos, the church and its enemies were thus united in an Enlightenment project, but bitterly divided over what it meant in practice.

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Anglican Enlightenment

Anglican Enlightenment

The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire

The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire

Memorials of the Preston Guilds. Illustrating the Manner in which the Guild Merchant has been Held in the Borough from the Earliest on Record Until the Last Guild in 1862

Memorials of the Preston Guilds. Illustrating the Manner in which the Guild Merchant has been Held in the Borough from the Earliest on Record Until the Last Guild in 1862

The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment

The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment

The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire

The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire

Anglican Enlightenment

Anglican Enlightenment

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