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The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding
In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinism's insistence on human rulers' tendency to err played a significant role in the founders' prescription of limited government and fed the distinctly American philosophy in which political freedom for citizens is held as the highest value. Hall's timely work countervails many scholars' doubt in the intellectual efficacy of religion by showing that religious teachings have led to such progressive ideals as American democracy and freedom.
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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4
The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the history of the trials in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved. Other topics covered will be the continued practical use made of magic, the elaboration of demonological theories about witchcraft and magic, and the further development of scientific interests in natural magic through the 'Neoplatonic' and 'Hermetic' period.Amongst the topics included here are Superstition and Belief in high and popular culture, the place of Medicine, Witchcraft survivals in art and literature, and the survival of Persecution.>
Faith and Fanaticism
Six essays from a May 1996 conference at the University of Humberside, England, are augmented with an additional three contributions developing the main themes further. They discuss the quest for orthodoxy in terms of the problems of the female visionary in the Catholic Monarchy, monastic spirituality in the early 16th century, and fanatical condemnation of opponents of the Immaculate Conception in 15th-century Valencia. They also include topics on the imposition of orthodoxy and cross-cultural awareness. Assumes literacy in Spanish. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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