Seeing Things Their Way

While religious history and intellectual history are both active, dynamic fields of contemporary historical inquiry, historians of ideas and historians of religion have too often paid little attention to one another's work. The intellectual historian Quentin Skinner urged historians to attend to the contexts as well as the texts of authors, in order to 'see things their way'. Where religion was concerned, however, Skinner failed to follow his own good advice; this book helps to remedy that failure. The editors and contributors urge intellectual historians to explore the religious dimensions of ideas and at the same time commend the methods of intellectual history to historians of religion. The introduction is followed by an essay by Brad Gregory reflecting on issues related to the study of the history of religious ideas. Subsequent essays by John Coffey, Anna Sapir Abulafia, Howard Hotson, Richard A. Muller, and Willem J. van Asselt explore the importance of religion in the intellectual history of Great Britain and Europe in the medieval and early modern periods. James Bradley shifts forward with his essay on religious ideas in Enlightenment England. Mark Noll and Alister Chapman deal respectively with British influence on the writing of religious history in America and with the relationship between intellectual history and religion in modern Britain. David Bebbington provides a concluding reflection on the challenges inherent in restoring the centrality of religion to intellectual history.

ISBN 0268022984   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780268022983 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher University of Notre Dame Press   Weight (grammes) 431 Imprint University of Notre Dame Press   Published in Notre Dame IN Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 15 Oct 2009   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 200.9   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate

1		Introduction: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion by John Coffey and Alister Chapman		1
2		Can We "See Things Their Way"? Should We Try? by Brad S. Gregory		24
3		Quentin Skinner and the Religious Dimension of Early Modern Political Thought by John Coffey		46
4		"Sie Stinken Beide" or How to Use Medieval Christian-Jewish Disputational Material by Anna Sapir Abulafia		75
5		Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism, Apocalypticism, and Millenarianism in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study and Some Methodological Reflections by Howard Hotson		91
6		Reflections on Persistent Whiggism and Its Antidotes in the Study of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Intellectual History by Richard A. Muller		134
7		Scholasticism Revisited: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Seventeenth-century Reformed Thought by Willem J. Van Asselt		154
8		The Changing Shape of Religious Ideas in Enlightened England by James E. Bradley		175
9		British Methodological Pointers for Writing a History of Theology in America by Mark A. Noll		202
10		Intellectual History and Religion in Modern Britain by Alister Chapman		226
11		Response: The History of Ideas and the Study of Religion by David W. Bebbington		240
		Index		261

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