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Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture (ND Erasmus Institute Books)

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Description for Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture (ND Erasmus Institute Books) Paperback. Describes and analyzes changing attitudes toward religion during three stages of modern European culture: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic period. This guide traces the weakening of the Christian synthesis. It is based on the Erasmus Lectures he delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2005. Series: Erasmus Institute Books. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 213.

Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture describes and analyzes changing attitudes toward religion during three stages of modern European culture: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic period. Louis Dupré is an expert guide to the complex historical and intellectual relation between religion and modern culture.

Dupré begins by tracing the weakening of the Christian synthesis. At the end of the Middle Ages intellectual attitudes toward religion began to change. Theology, once the dominant science that had integrated all others, lost its commanding position. After the French Revolution, religion once again played a role in intellectual life, but ... Read more

Dupré’s elegant and incisive book, based on the Erasmus Lectures he delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2005, will challenge anyone interested in religion and the philosophy of culture.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Erasmus Institute Books
Number of Pages
130
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268025946
SKU
V9780268025946
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About Louis Dupré
Louis Dupré is T. Lawrason Riggs Professor Emeritus in Religious Studies at Yale University. He has published numerous books and articles, including The Other Dimension and Transcendent Selfhood.

Reviews for Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture (ND Erasmus Institute Books)
“This beautifully crafted essay by Louis Dupré makes an original contribution to our understanding of the emergence and development of modernity, which dispensing with religion as a governing discourse and form of life, nonetheless attempts to find a place for it in a world sufficiently depleted of meaning and value as to require reenchantment. It supplements Dupré’s two magisterial texts ... Read more

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