Unknowing fanaticism : Reformation literatures of self-annihilation / Ross Lerner.

We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term 'fanatic, ' from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable term. Then and now it has been reductively defined to justify state violence and to delegitimi...

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Main Author: Lerner, Ross (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Receiving divine action: fanaticism and form in the Reformation -- Allegorical fanaticism: Spenser's organs -- Lyric fanaticism: Donne's annihilation -- Readerly fanaticism: Hobbes's outworks -- Tragic fanaticism: Samson's passion. 
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