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  title info:
    title: Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800
  name:
    name part: Dunan-Page, Anne.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Prunier, Clotilde.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 218 p. online resource.
  abstract: The first book to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800 shows how letters shaped religious debate in early-modern and Enlightenment Britain, and discusses the materiality of the letters as well as questions of form and genre. Particular attention is paid to the contexts in which letters were composed, sent, read, distributed, and then destroyed, copied or printed, in periods of religious tolerance or persecution. The opening section, ‘Protestant identities’, examines the importance of letters in the shaping of British protestantism from the underground correspondence of Protestant martyrs in the reign of Mary I to dissident letters after the Act of Toleration. ‘Representations of British Catholicism’, explores the way English, Irish and Scottish Catholics, whether in exile or at home, defined their faith, established epistolary networks, and addressed political and religious allegiances in the face of adversity. The last part, ‘Religion, science and philosophy’, focuses on the religious content of correspondence between natural scientists and philosophers.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Religion and letter writing, 1550-1800, G. Schneider -- Part I Protestant Identities -- Scribal Networks and sustainers in Protestant martyrology, M. Greengrass -- Thomas Browne, the Quakers, and a Letter from a Judicious Friend, R. Barbour -- Writing authority in the Interregnum: The pastoral letters of Richard Baxter, A. Searle -- Letters and records of the dissenting congregations: David Crosley,Cripplegate and Baptist Church life, A. Dunan-Page -- Part II Representations of British Catholicism -- ‘For the Greater Glory’: Irish Jesuit letters and the Irish Counter-Reformation,1598-1626, D. Finnegan -- James ‘III and VIII’ and Catholic Kingship, 1702-1718, D. Szechi -- Every time I receive a Letter from you it gives me new vigour’: The correspondence of Scalan masters, 1762-1783, C. Prunier -- Part III Religion, Science and Philosophy -- Debating the faith: Damaris Masham (1658-1708) and religious controversy, S. Hutton -- Dining out in the Republic of Letters: The rhetoric of scientific correspondence, C. Preston -- Evangelical Calvinists versus the Hutcheson Circle: Debating the faith in Scotland, 1738-1739, J. Moore -- Questioning church doctrine in private correspondence in the eighteenth century: Jean Bouhier’s doubts concerning the soul, A. Thomson -- Index.
  note: edited by Anne Dunan-Page, Clotilde Prunier.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: B108-5802
  classification: 180-190
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 209
  identifier: 9789400752160
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5216-0
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    record creation date: 121116
    record change date: 20151204175405.0
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