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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825040803321

Autore

Sommerville C. John (Charles John), <1938->

Titolo

The secularization of early modern England : from religious culture to religious faith / / C. John Sommerville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1992

ISBN

0-19-771614-8

1-280-52613-0

0-19-536075-3

1-4294-0743-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

261

Soggetti

Secularism - England - History

England Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. The Study of Secularization; 2. The Secularization of Space; 3. The Secularization of Time and Play; 4. The Secularization of Language; 5. The Politics of Secularization (1529-1603); 6. The Secularization of Technology and Work; 7. The Secularization of Art; 8. The Politics of Reaction (1603-1659); 9. The Secularization of Power; 10. The Secularization of Personhood and Association; 11. The Secularization of Scholarship and Science; 12. Religious Responses to Secularization; 13. Antecedents, Causes, and Conclusions; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The author examines the onset of secularization in 16th-and 17th-century England, exploring how and why various aspects of life became divorced from religious values.