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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Christian Roots of Individualism
  name:
    name part: Heath, Maureen P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 294 p. online resource.
  abstract: The modern West has made the focus on individuality, individual freedom, and self-identity central to its self-definition, and these concepts have been crucially shaped by Christianity. This book surveys how the birth of the Christian worldview affected the evolution of individualism in Western culture as a cultural meme. Applying a biological metaphor and Richard Dawkins' definition of a meme, this work argues the advent of individualism was not a sudden innovation of the Renaissance or the Enlightenment, but a long evolution with characteristic traits. This evolution can be mapped using profiles of individuals in different historical eras who contributed to the modern notion of individualism. Utilizing excerpts from original works from Augustine to Nietzsche, a compelling narrative arises from the slow but steady evolution of the modern self. The central argument is that Christianity, with its characteristic inwardness, was fundamental in the development of a sense of self as it affirmed the importance of the everyday man and everyday life.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Values and Worldviews -- 3. Augustine and The Inner-Self Meme -- 4. Abelard, Heloise, and Ockham: The Intentional-Self Meme -- 5. Dante: The Responsible-Self Meme -- 6. Pico Della Mirandola: The Self-Made Man Meme -- 7. Luther: The Autonomous-Self Meme -- 8. Montaigne: The Subjective-Self Meme -- 9. Locke: The Natural Rights Meme -- 10. Epilogue: Conclusions.
  note: by Maureen P. Heath.
  subject:
    topic: Religion-History
  subject:
    topic: Theology
  subject:
    topic: Self
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: History of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Christian Theology
  subject:
    topic: Self and Identity
  classification: BL48
  classification: 200.09
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030300890
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30089-0
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    record creation date: 191128
    record change date: 20191220130554.0
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