Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth-century Society: Essays from the DeBartolo ConferenceRegina Hewitt, Pat Rogers The essays in this volume use the concept of heresy to gain insight into the value of social order during the eighteenth century. By applying the vocabulary of religion to behaviours that might more usually be studied as deviance, the contributors can account for the complexity and vehemence of conflicts over right order played out in the literary, artistic, and political arenas of the age. The essays examine a range of cultural encounters between orthodox and heterodox figures. |
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... nature of the given order makes the risk of leaving or spoiling it greater than it might otherwise appear to be . Turning to religion in order to fathom social systems has a precedent in sociology itself . Emile Durkheim , one of the ...
... nature of the given order makes the risk of leaving or spoiling it greater than it might otherwise appear to be . Turning to religion in order to fathom social systems has a precedent in sociology itself . Emile Durkheim , one of the ...
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... natural order rather than in any human contract . Soci- ety , he maintained , is " a reality sui generis " ; it is a " part of nature " that " has its own characteristics " and that is not reducible to its individual members . In fact ...
... natural order rather than in any human contract . Soci- ety , he maintained , is " a reality sui generis " ; it is a " part of nature " that " has its own characteristics " and that is not reducible to its individual members . In fact ...
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... nature and status.15 Taking in a larger range of structures and conflicts , our volume , like Alexander's , examines the power of the sacred behind all privileged forms . As Alexander writes in support of reference to Durk- heim's ...
... nature and status.15 Taking in a larger range of structures and conflicts , our volume , like Alexander's , examines the power of the sacred behind all privileged forms . As Alexander writes in support of reference to Durk- heim's ...
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... nature of social conflict , the essays below offer insights into how order is perceived , valued , and negotiated ( or consecrated , de- consecrated , and re - consecrated ) through cultural interactions . Orthodox and heterodox claims ...
... nature of social conflict , the essays below offer insights into how order is perceived , valued , and negotiated ( or consecrated , de- consecrated , and re - consecrated ) through cultural interactions . Orthodox and heterodox claims ...
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... nature of heretical identities and positions : history often vindicates the heretics ' view . Though sympathy with heresy is characteristic of current trends toward valorizing whatever had been neglected , moving the marginal- ized to ...
... nature of heretical identities and positions : history often vindicates the heretics ' view . Though sympathy with heresy is characteristic of current trends toward valorizing whatever had been neglected , moving the marginal- ized to ...
Contents
Guides to Londons Transgressive Spaces | 27 |
The Limits of Toleration and the Orthodox Attack on Rational Religion in Late EighteenthCentury England | 51 |
The Worsley Affair in LateEighteenthCentury Britain | 69 |
Swifts Fear of Infectious Dissent and His Argument against Abolishing Christian Quarantine in A Tale of a Tub | 89 |
Pope and the Prophets of Dulness | 112 |
An Orthodox Rebel | 134 |
Sculptor Pamphleteer Outcast | 154 |
The Gnostic Clarissa | 176 |
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