the official or state language of Reformation England. To be sure, “At no stage was the English Reformation an isolated act of state.” 3 However, at the moment when the Reformation became a national project, it required instruments of enforcement
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The English Reformation and the Invention of Innovation, 1548–1649
Benoît Godin
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Religion and the Fable of Liberalism
The Case of Hobbes
Joshua Mitchell
Because Hobbes is understood to be a proto-liberal thinker, a great deal hinges on how we understand his writings. Does he contribute to the development of a purely secular political self-understanding, as many liberals today claim? And, by extension, does that mean that liberal thought today best stands on a purely secular foundation? What, then, should we make of the extensive theological speculation throughout his Leviathan ? Here, I argue that to reconcile the seemingly purely secular claims in Leviathan with the obviously religious claims found there we must move beyond reading him in terms of what I here call 'the fable of liberalism', and comprehend Leviathan as a whole in terms of Reformation era debates between Protestants and Roman Catholics about the limits and purview of reason. Understood in that way we see his claims about 'reason' in a new and important light. Rather than being an inevitable development that comes to supercede honour and glory, as the fable of liberalism suggests, 'reason' is seen to have an historically contingent character, whose parameters are established by wagers about the meaning of religious experience.
The Sociality of Margaret Hoby's Reading Practices and the Representation of Reformation Interiority
Mary Ellen Lamb
Addressing the question, ‘Am I saved?’, the diary of Margaret Hoby is primarily an exercise in the Puritan discipline of selfexamination, a pre-condition for ‘assurance’ or certain knowledge of election. Covering the years 1599–1605, Hoby’s entries represent a life saturated by print – the reading of Scripture and contemporary devotional authors, as well as of copying reading material into her commonplace and testament books. Hoby’s religious discipline was not unusual for devout women of the gentry class, whose piety came to resemble ‘a kind of self-imposed career’. As Diane Willen has aptly noted for Protestant women, ‘Denied the status of the Puritan divine, women might seek the greater status of Puritan saint’. There is a sense in which Margaret Hoby, as well as other Reformation women, may have found in private religious exercises a focus upon the states of their souls which in fact freed them momentarily from gender roles. Yet Reformation women incorporated their religious experiences into lives which were inevitably affected by gender.
Holy hustlers, schism, and prophecy. Apostolic reformation in Botswana by Werbner, Richard
RUY LLERA BLANES
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2013
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 121–122 (1 total)
The Art of Doubting
A Christian Perspective
Daniela Koeppler
such. I shall now approach the complex theme of the ‘Art of Doubting’ by introducing in the following, as a Protestant, a few personalities from the period of the Reformation. Through their example, I want to show what can go wrong in a religion, in
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 64–74 (11 total)
Shakespeare and Derivatives
David Hawkes
an hysterical reaction to the unprecedented power of autonomous images. At the same time, the iconoclasm of the Reformation instructed the population in the dangers of worshipping images, or idolatry. This was also the period when theoretical and
Editorial
Peter R. Gardner and Benjamin Abrams
reformation of the Thai monarchy and the dissolution of Prayut Chan-O-Cha's government. At the time of writing, the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion appears poised for mass action in Westminster to call for a political response commensurate with the
Algorithmic Aesthetics
Bodies and Subjects in the Era of Big Data
Andrew J. Ball
is being applied to the reformation of bodies. Along similar lines, in “Cyborgian Salariats” Stephanie Bender argues that the individual is subordinated and rationalized by modern technology. Bender examines how Sasha Stone's photo essay “Hundred
Book Reviews
Huub de Jonge, Tomasz Płonka, Reginald Byron, Longina Jakubowska, Cindy Horst, Han ten Brummelhuis, and Jeremy Boissevain
Albert Schrauwers, Colonial ‘reformation’ in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892–1995
Chris Gosden, Anthropology and archaeology: a changing relationship
Jane Nadel-Klein, Fishing for heritage: modernity and loss along the Scottish coast
’Aref Abu-Rabi’a, Bedouin century: education and development among the Negev Bedouin in the twentieth century
Marc Sommers, Fear in Bongoland: Burundi refugees in urban Tanzania
Richard Parker, Beneath the Equator: cultures of desire, male homosexuality, and emerging gay communities in Brazil
Klaus Eder and Maria Kousis (eds.), Environmental politics in Southern Europe: actors, institutions and discourses in a Europeanizing society
The Australian Society of the State
Egalitarian Ideologies and New Directions in Exclusionary Practice
Bruce Kapferer and Barry Morris
This article considers the broad historical and ideological processes that participate in forming the continuities and discontinuities of Australian egalitarian nationalism. We draw attention to its forma- tion and re-formation in the debates surrounding the so-called Han- son phenomenon. Hansonism refracts the crisis of what we regard as the Australian society of the state in the circumstances of the devel- opment of neoliberal policies and the more recent neoconservative turn of the current Howard government. Our argument is directed to exploring the contradictions and tensions in Australian egalitarian thought and practice and its thoroughgoing creative reengagement in contemporary postcolonial and postmodern Australia.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2003
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 80–107 (28 total)