Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650–1900. By Geoffrey Cantor. Pp. xii + 420. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. isbn 0 19 92768 4. £50
Geoffrey Cantor, who is professor of the History of Science at the University of Leeds, has examined the responses of British Friends and Jews to what he calls ‘modernity and the sciences’. From the seventeenth to the later nineteenth century both groups were small, each about twenty thousand in num...
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| Language: | English |
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2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 799-801 |
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| Summary: | Geoffrey Cantor, who is professor of the History of Science at the University of Leeds, has examined the responses of British Friends and Jews to what he calls ‘modernity and the sciences’. From the seventeenth to the later nineteenth century both groups were small, each about twenty thousand in number, but the Jews increased rapidly by immigration after 1880 because of intense persecution in eastern Europe. Both had small groups of wealthy people, some of whom were interested in science, together with large numbers of poor for whom they found it hard to provide. By the 1830s the Society of Friends had survived social rejection and become an accepted part of Dissent but seemed to be falling apart: a brief conservative turn towards evangelicalism did not help, and J. S. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll003 |