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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Danneberg, Lutz
• Pott, Sandra
• Schonert, Jorg
• Vollhardt, Friedrich

Titel

Zwischen christlicher Apologetik und methodologischem Atheismus: Wissenschaftsprozesse im Zeitraum von 1500 bis 1800

Auflage

Reprint 2011.

Ort / Verlag

De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The modern sciences, including the natural sciences, played a part in "secularizing" perception and thinking. The objective of this three-volume work is to show how different this scientific contribution was from case to case. It is noted, for instance, that it is often more appropriate to speak of a "Christianization" of thinking and that even "libertarianism" did not have a directly secularizing effect. Through examples of early modern science and literature anticipating the early 19th century, the concept of secularization is given historical contour. Diverging a good deal of current research, these volumes portray secularization as a long-term accumulation of knowledge and insight into interrelationships in the natural world.;This second volume offers systematically arranged individual studies on phenomena of secularization in philosophy, law, theology, art and literature. Together, the three works create a conceptual and analytical foundation for understanding secularization, a key concept in research on early modern cultural and intellectual history.