The religious enlightment David Sorkin.

Presentation of a comparison of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic intellectual history. The speaker suggests that the Enlightenment, which gave birth to Modernity, should best be understood as a religious, not an anti-religious project.

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Main Author: Sorkin, David Jan
Corporate Author: College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Mass.). Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture
Format: Electronic Software eBook
Published: 2009.
Series:CREC Listen and learn.
Deitchman Family lectures on religion and modernity.
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Summary:Presentation of a comparison of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic intellectual history. The speaker suggests that the Enlightenment, which gave birth to Modernity, should best be understood as a religious, not an anti-religious project.
Item Description:Title from CREC Listen and Learn website.
Date of lecture: March 16, 2009.
Sponsored by Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.
David Sorkin is a professor of history and the Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the author of a book with the same title, "The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna" published by the Princeton University Press in 2008.
Physical Description:1 sound file (55 min., 58 sec.) : digital, MP3 file.
Format:Available online and as an iTunes download.
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