Author
Jane Shaw
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Published
August 2006
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Author
Jane Shaw
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Published
August 2006
£25.12
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Miracles in Enlightenment England
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The Enlightenment, considered an age of rationalism, is not normally associated with miracles. In this intriguing book, however, Jane Shaw presents accounts of inscrutable miracles that occurred to ordinary worshippers in early modern England. She considers the reactions of intellectuals, scientists and physicians to these miraculous events, and through them explores the relations between popular and elite culture of the time. Miraculous events in England between the 1650s and the 1750s were experienced mainly by Protestants, rather than by Catholics. The book looks at the political and social context of these events as well as interpretations and explanations of them by scientists, the Court and the Church, as by preachers, pamphleteers, friends and neighbours. Shaw links the lived religion of the time to intellectual history and amends the hitherto received view. The religious practice of ordinary people was as crucial to the development of Enlightenment thought as the philosophical and theological writings of the elite. Jane Shaw was educated at Oxford, Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley.
She is Dean of Divinity, Chaplain, and Fellow of New College, Oxford, and co-editor (with Alan Kreider) of 'Culture and the Nonconformist Tradition' (1999).
Author
Jane Shaw
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Published
August 2006
Weight
364g
Page Count
256
Dimensions
156 x 241 x 12 mm
ISBN
9780300197686
ISBN-10
0300197683
Eden Code
4079431
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Author/Creator: Jane Shaw
ISBN: 9780300197686
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date: August 2006
Weight: 364g
Dimensions: 156 x 241 x 12 mm
Eden Code: 4079431