'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment
- ISBN-10
- 0521892937
- ISBN-13
- 9780521892933
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 277
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-05-02
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Peter Harrison
Description
This book shows how the concept of 'religion' and 'the religions' arose out of controversies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. The birth of 'the religions', conceived to be sets of beliefs and practices, enabled the establishment of a new science of religion in which the various 'religions' were studied and impartially compared.
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