Recovering Bishop Berkeley
Recovering Bishop Berkeley

Author: S. Breuninger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-04-26

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0230106463

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Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion could play crucial roles in alleviating these problems.

Triumph of the Laity
Triumph of the Laity

Author: Marilyn J. Westerkamp

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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In this important revisionist study, Marilyn Westerkamp argues that the Great Awakening of the 1740s--a religious revival of dramatic scope and violence that swept through the mid-Atlantic colonies--had its origins in events far removed from America in time and place. Drawing from previously neglected primary sources, Westerkamp traces the Awakening's roots to 17th-century Scots-Irish revivalism and contends that it travelled to the colonies with Scots-Irish emigrants. Hardly the spiritual innovation that it is sometimes represented to be, the Awakening was thus but one development in a long-standing tradition.