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Very GoodA book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Hardcover
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Book Title
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The Birth of Modern Belief
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1 lbs
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Book
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No
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ISBN
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9780691174747
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Religion, History
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Birth of Modern Belief : Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
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Princeton University Press
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8.8 in
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Christian Church / History, Christian Theology / History, General, Faith, History, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
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Publication Year
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2019
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Textbook
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Hardcover
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English
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1.3 in
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20.8 Oz
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5.9 in
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408 Pages
The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the…
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691174741
ISBN-13
9780691174747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038694647
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
408 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Birth of Modern Belief : Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
Subject
Christian Church / History, Christian Theology / History, General, Faith, History, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2018-937605
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
‘eoeThis is a stunning piece of scholarship’e”from beginning to end, it is an intellectual ride that never loses pace. Shagan’e(tm)s treatment of the multivalent nature of belief is compelling and provocative.’e’e”Bruce Gordon, author of John Calvin’e(tm)s ‘eoeInstitutes of the Christian Religion’e: A Biography, ‘eoeThis fine book will appeal to anyone seeking solutions to what many in the West see as a crisis of belief. The Birth of Modern Belief will have lasting value for thoughtful adherents of the great world religions.’e’e”Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, “This is a stunning piece of scholarship–from beginning to end, it is an intellectual ride that never loses pace. Shagan’s treatment of the multivalent nature of belief is compelling and provocative.” –Bruce Gordon, author of John Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion”: A Biography, “This fine book will appeal to anyone seeking solutions to what many in the West see as a crisis of belief. The Birth of Modern Belief will have lasting value for thoughtful adherents of the great world religions.” –Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, ” The Birth of Modern Belief is an eminently important book that also happens to be excellently written. It is a highly valuable contribution to religious studies’ ongoing debates over the concept of belief, and it should be read by not only anyone interested in the concept–although they especially should read it–but by just about anyone working in the study of religion.” —Jason Blum, Reading Religion, Shagan . . . traces the surprisingly complicated evolving meaning of belief in this engrossing intellectual history. . . . This impressive unpacking of the now-common-sense understanding of knowledge glides smoothly through its arguments and provides useful insights for scholars in religion and beyond., ‘eoeEthan Shagan has written a marvelous and splendidly bracing book. He shows how a single historian can interpret highly varied texts from a period of several hundred years in a deft and challenging way’e”and do so without ever losing sight of the sharp chronology that frames the book.’e’e”Anthony Grafton, author of Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West, “Ethan Shagan has written a marvelous and splendidly bracing book. He shows how a single historian can interpret highly varied texts from a period of several hundred years in a deft and challenging way–and do so without ever losing sight of the sharp chronology that frames the book.” –Anthony Grafton, author of Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West, This game-changing book will alter the way you understand the history and nature of belief in the West from the Middle Ages to our own time., ” The Birth of Modern Belief is an eminently important book that also happens to be excellently written. It is a highly valuable contribution to religious studies’e(tm) ongoing debates over the concept of belief, and it should be read by not only anyone interested in the concept’e”although they especially should read it’e”but by just about anyone working in the study of religion.” —Jason Blum, Reading Religion
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
270
Synopsis
An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be.Shagan shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval Europe, one that set it apart from judgment, opinion, and the evidence of the senses. But with the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation, the question of just what kind of knowledge religious belief was-and how it related to more mundane ways of knowing-was forced into the open. As the warring churches fought over the answer, each claimed belief as their exclusive possession, insisting that their rivals were unbelievers. Shagan challenges the common notion that modern belief was a gift of the Reformation, showing how it was as much a reaction against Luther and Calvin as it was against the Council of Trent. He describes how dissidents on both sides came to regard religious belief as something that needed to be justified by individual judgment, evidence, and argument.Brilliantly illuminating, The Birth of Modern Belief demonstrates how belief came to occupy such an ambivalent place in the modern world, becoming the essential category by which we express our judgments about science, society, and the sacred, but at the expense of the unique status religion once enjoyed., An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, whic, An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the West This landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be. Shagan shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval Europe, one that set it apart from judgment, opinion, and the evidence of the senses. But with the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation, the question of just what kind of knowledge religious belief was–and how it related to more mundane ways of knowing–was forced into the open. As the warring churches fought over the answer, each claimed belief as their exclusive possession, insisting that their rivals were unbelievers. Shagan challenges the common notion that modern belief was a gift of the Reformation, showing how it was as much a reaction against Luther and Calvin as it was against the Council of Trent. He describes how dissidents on both sides came to regard religious belief as something that needed to be justified by individual judgment, evidence, and argument. Brilliantly illuminating, The Birth of Modern Belief demonstrates how belief came to occupy such an ambivalent place in the modern world, becoming the essential category by which we express our judgments about science, society, and the sacred, but at the expense of the unique status religion once enjoyed.
LC Classification Number
BR145.3.S5 2018
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