The Catholic enlightenment : the forgotten history of a global movement /
"Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion, as prevalent today as it...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Progress and Catholicism
- oil and water?
- Catholic Enlighteners around the globe
- The Catholic learning curve : toleration and tolerance
- Feminism, freedom, faith : Catholic women and the Enlightenment
- Catholic Enlightenment in the Americas, China and India
- Devils, demons, and the divine in the Catholic Enlightenment
- Saints and sinners
- Slaves, servants, and savages : slavery in Catholic countries
- The death of Catholic Enlightenment and the beginning of a papal Catholicism.