My dissertation argues that the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was an influential presence in Early America and deserves more historical attention. In their response to this theology, early advocates of Swedenborg’s doctrines demonstrated a desire for reconciliation …
"32" Result
Sort By:
American studies and literary scholarship have long operated on the assumption that the United States has no official religion. That assumption has led naturally to a circumscribed and incomplete, if not inaccurate, set of traditionally accepted literary-critical conclusions whe…
A wise teacher will adapt the lesson according to the learning ability of the student. Depending on the student's level of comprehension, the teacher can alter the method of instruction in a manner that is best suited for the circumstances. God practiced the same strategy in his…
This thesis explores the emergence of the Bourgeois culture in Antebellum America during the transition of nineteenth century America into what we refer to as “modern-day America.” This period is crucial in American history as ideological concepts developed as the nation industr…
Using the French Revolution's moral crusade and political inquisition as the centerpoint of its analysis, this study examines the importation of religious ideas and passions into secular affairs, beginning with the moralistes of the Enlightenment and ending with the early Romant…
The existing image of opera culture in the Enlightenment is incomplete. While musicology tends to confer importance on a few major musical centers, eighteenth-century opera was increasingly unrestricted by geographical or linguistic boundaries, and circulated throughout the enti…
This dissertation is concerned with Enlightenment in a colonial and postcolonial setting. Its premise is that minority is a fundamental category of experience in post-Enlightenment liberal societies. It attempts a genealogy of secularism in colonial and postcolonial South Asia b…
This dissertation examines medieval Christian images of Muslims and their influence on later European attitudes toward Islam and Turks. It elaborates a theory of collective identity as the dramatic or theatrical performance of a socially constructed collective Self that can be a…
This dissertation re-examines early Enlightenment culture and the religious politics of the post-Civil War British empire. Contrary to the overwhelming consensus of historians, it insists that the methodological, conceptual, and social repertoire of late humanism did not lead to…
One of the questions at stake in contemporary theoretical debates over the legacy of the Enlightenment is whether the political violence that has been carried out over the last two centuries is inextricably linked to the rationalist values promoted by the Enlightenment. This cri…
This dissertation reexamines the process of secularization that went on in the European Enlightenment, specifically as it relates to political theory. The philosophers of the Enlightenment united the secularizing trends occurring in all areas of knowledge--science, sociology, hi…