The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment: From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century

by William R. Everdell

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures include Muḥammad Ibn abd al-Waḥhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel Ba'al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030697614
• ISBN13: 9783030697617
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 449 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"