The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714

by Alasdair Raffe

The Culture of Controversy investigates arguments about religion in Scotland from the Restoration to the death of Queen Anne and outlines a new model for thinking about collective disagreement in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies. Rejecting teleological concepts of the 'public sphere', the book instead analyses religious debates in terms of a distinctively early modern 'culture of controversy'. This culture was less rational and less...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843837293
• ISBN13: 9781843837299
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"