Overview
- Uniquely brings together Salafist and Wahhabi Islam, Evangelical Protestantism, Jansenist Catholicism, and Hasidic Judaism
- Aligns the Abrahamic religions together with the philosophical Counter-Enlightenment and Romanticism, using the tools of intellectual history
- Appeals to scholars working in the philosophy of religion
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life (BSPR, volume 9)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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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About the author
William R. Everdell is an American teacher and author. His three prior books have also been on the history of ideas. He has written articles on French historical studies and History of European Ideas, and is the author of numerous reviews in journals including Studies in the Novel and the New York Times Book Review.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment
Book Subtitle: From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century
Authors: William R. Everdell
Series Title: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69762-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69761-7Published: 21 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69764-8Published: 22 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69762-4Published: 21 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2352-8206
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8214
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 449
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, History of Religion, Cultural History, Christianity, Judaism, Islam