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...Lisa O'Connell Recent scholarly work by Jürgen Habermas, Judith Butler, and others posits a new cultural domain that is simultaneously religious and secular. Drawing on the sermons of John Tillotson and the fiction of Henry Fielding, this paper examines literary sentimentalism in this “post-secular...

...Mark Canuel Colin Jager. The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007). Pp. xi + 274. $59.95. ISBN 0-8112-3979-2 Daniel E. White. Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp xiii + 266. $90.00...

...Robert Miles Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and Craig Calhoun, eds. Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age . ( Cambridge : Harvard Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. vii + 337 . $45 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay...

... Review Essay Performing the Self: Methodist, Secular, and Postsecular Productions Lori Branch University of Iowa Misty G. Anderson. Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief...

...Amanda Vickery Religion and the Georgian world of goods are rarely discussed in tandem. The modern history of consumerism is secular in conceptualization. The booming literature on the Georgian world of goods has engaged only glancingly with religious ideas. A series of prejudices about...

... the natural and social worlds than they had known before, which led to more empirical comparing, more systematic speculation, and more secular self-questioning. Most scholarship on Enlightenment and Pacific voyaging, however, focuses on relatively elite or well-educated thinkers who were already on the path...

...Melvyn New Because Laurence Sterne suggested that sermons should come from the heart and should be practical rather than polemical, his own sermons have often been read as products of a sentimental and secular midcentury ethos, moral essays without theological meaning. However, the appearance...

...Mira Zaman Abstract As the long eighteenth century brought forth a new wave of secular ethics, Daniel Defoe expressed serious concern about a particular figure who was losing status among the intellectual elite: the Devil. In his Political History of the Devil , Defoe insists that waning belief...

... North’s history, or rather histories—for he wrote five distinct his- torical sketches over the span of more than thirty years that differ con- siderably in scale and content—concern secular as well as sacred musical genres.25 North’s historical interests formed but a small part of his fascina- tion...

... bear in mind that the monasteries of the old orders—the Benedictines, Canons Regular (Augustinians), Cistercians, and Premonstratensians—in the Holy Roman Empire of the Counter-Reformation shared characteristics with the secular court. The prelates who presided over these monasteries were not only...

... Evelyn used the word impulsively, as he recognized in the ruins of London the landscape of apocalypse. But by repeating so familiar a phrase from biblical accounts of urban desolation, Evelyn used what was to become one of the most resonant images in the history of secular writ- ing about London...

... and eclecticism arise from the fact that God does not err and that all that exists, exists for a reason, this postulation about the necessity of what exists marks the limits of their knowl- edge. Of course, the secular Enlightenment had its own limitations in other metaphysical presuppositions...

... developed allegiance to the magic of teleology”; “Narrative thinking is little more than a code word for superstition” (7); “Magic, within the culture of secular modernity, operates through the principle of fictional- ity” (52). No one has ever really attempted to create a truly realistic narrative...

...Michael Griffin Part 2 is entitled “Philosophical and Political Frameworks.” David Dwan is not as ready as some to endorse the Enlightenment as a pure liberal good, or as a straightforwardly secular concept. He addresses two preconceptions: that Ireland was resistant, or even “deeply inimical...

... and Paradise Regained as a mortalist text. In Stewart's telling, the Christ of Paradise Regained is “an intriguingly secularizing figure” (46), a miracle-averse Messiah who resists the temptation to wield divine power and instead “opts to inhabit the human present and the work he must do in it” (44). “While...

... the Enlightenment was cosmopolitan, tolerant, secular, sentimental, yet given to rational thought. Although he tells us that publishing was but one factor among others (23) contributing to the Scottish Enlightenment, he often writes as if it were the only one that counted, because he sees it as sustaining...

.... This excellent essay off ers readers an interesting and lively look at how one Jewish author constructed his identity as a Jew while simultane- ously seeing himself as British. In his essay on Isaac D’Israeli, Peterfreund identifi es the intellectual and conceptual basis of D’Israeli’s secular literary...

..., politically, scientifically progressive Spanish and Spanish-­American Catholic culture in the eighteenth century. Coexistent with the Bourbon reforms, Cath- olic intellectuals both religious (Jesuit) and laymen (Jesuit-­educated) combined secular reason with spiritual passion. Before the Kings Charles...

... of a religious past” in the eigh- teenth century nor is it a “hallmark of secularization” (3) in its social or aes- thetic incarnation. Rather, it “encodes” a defining contradiction in the period inherent in the “spatio-­temporal manifestation of the logic of capital accumu- lation” (4). Perhaps...

... of righteous pertinacity, a laudable exercise of protest against the dangers of secular worldly wisdom. Borrowing from their own language, perhaps it is now therefore time to recognize that the scholarship proclaiming the conduct genre's supposed “emptiness” might be from an outdated, “old school” of thought...