Enlightening enthusiasm: Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England
In the early modern period, the term "enthusiasm" was a smear word used to discredit the dissenters of the radical Reformation as dangerous religious fanatics. In England, the term gained prominence from the Civil War period and throughout the eighteenth century. Anglican ministers and the...
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Oxford
Manchester University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | Lionel LABORIE, Enlightening Enthusiasm. Prophecy and Religious Experience in Early Eighteenth-Century England (2019) (Lachenicht, Susanne)
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Prophecy - Christianity - History - 18th century
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| Summary: | In the early modern period, the term "enthusiasm" was a smear word used to discredit the dissenters of the radical Reformation as dangerous religious fanatics. In England, the term gained prominence from the Civil War period and throughout the eighteenth century. Anglican ministers and the proponents of the Enlightenment used it more widely against Paracelsian chemists, experimental philosophers, religious dissenters and divines, astrologers or anyone claiming superior knowledge. But who exactly were those enthusiasts? What did they believe in and what impact did they have on their contemporaries? This book concentrates on the notorious case of the French Prophets as the epitome of religious enthusiasm in early Enlightenment England. Based on new archival research, it retraces the formation, development and evolution of their movement and sheds new light on key contemporary issues such as millenarianism, censorship and the press, blasphemy, dissent and toleration, and madness Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Note on style and dates -- Introduction -- The Enlightenments -- Enthusiasm -- The French Prophets -- Approach -- Notes -- 1 The origins of the French Prophets -- The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes -- The birth of the resistance -- Languedoc in the wider European context -- The War of the Cévennes (1702-04) -- Camisards in the Refuge -- Notes -- 2 From the Désert to the New Jerusalem -- From Camisards to French Prophets -- Public image -- The social disease -- English religious landscape -- French Prophets or English Prophetesses? -- From ecumenism to sectarianism -- Tribes -- Notes -- 3 The final reformation -- Le Pays des sectes -- Creed -- The Millennium and beyond -- The new Quakers -- Baptism -- Salvation -- The Eucharist -- The Montanist precedent -- Praxis -- The cessationist debate -- Spiritual Instruments -- Tongues and voices -- Dreams, visions and stigmata -- Miracles -- Notes -- 4 Going public -- Dramatic assemblies -- From orality to print -- The battle of pamphlets -- Imposture -- Possession and the decline of magic? -- The philosophy of satire -- Settling scores -- The debate goes on -- Notes -- 5 Enthusiasm, blasphemy and toleration -- Toleration and its limits -- Popular protests -- The Huguenot community of London -- The trial of Elie Marion -- French Prophets and politics -- Blasphemy in Georgian England -- Notes -- 6 Medicalising enthusiasm -- Possession to medicalisation -- The diagnosis -- Taxonomy -- Body and soul -- Causes -- The English malady -- Enthusiastic madness -- Contagion -- Confining treatments -- The trade in lunacy -- Mad laws -- An unfair competition? -- Drugs -- Medical armementarium -- Confining enthusiasm -- Notes -- Conclusion The French Prophets' legacy -- Reappraising enthusiasm -- Notes -- Appendix: Chronological profile of the French Prophets -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 0719089883 |