The Unintended Reformation

How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society

Brad S. Gregory

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ISBN 9780674088054

Publication Date: 11/16/2015

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592 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction: The World We Have Lost?
1. Excluding God
2. Relativizing Doctrines
3. Controlling the Churches
4. Subjectivizing Morality
5. Manufacturing the Goods Life
6. Secularizing Knowledge
Conclusion: Against Nostalgia
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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Awards & Accolades

2013 ISI Henry & Anne Paolucci Book Award, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

2012 Aldersgate Prize, John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University

A Spectator Book of the Year, 2013

An Australian Broadcasting Corporation Religion & Ethics blog Best Book of 2012

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2012

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