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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: R.J.W. MillsPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2023 Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9783031490309ISBN 10: 3031490304 Pages: 334 Publication Date: 06 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction. Religion and Precursors to the Scottish ‘Science of Man’ 2. Religion and the Start of the Science of Human Nature: Campbell, Turnbull and Hume. George Turnbull on Religion and the ‘Moral Anatomy’ of the Mind Archibald Campbell on Mythography and the Science of Man David Hume’s Treatise and the ‘Science of Man’. 3. David Hume and the Emptiness of Natural Religion Religion, Imagination and the Passions The Psychology of Miracles Religion’s Relationship with Philosophy: Past and Future The Practical Consequences of Hume’s Study of Religion 4. Adam Smith on Religious Psychology in Society The Histories of Philosophy and of Physics The Psychology of Religion in the Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) Religious Sects and Social Stability in the Wealth of Nations The Decline and Fall of Medieval Catholicism 5. Henry Home, Lord Kames on Mechanistic Human Nature Kames’s Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751) The Sketches of the History of Man (1774) and the ‘Sense of Deity’ Kames on the Improvement of Theology On the Character of Religious Worship Religion and Morality Allegory and Myth as Childish Fictions 6. David Hume’s ‘Natural History of Religion’ (1757) Human Nature and the Lack of Universality The ‘Natural Progress’ of Religion? 7. William Robertson on Revelation and the Limits of Progress Robertson’s Necessity of Revelation at the Time of Christ’s Mission True Religion and the Necessity of Social Progress Superstition’s Role in Limiting of Progress: The History of America (1777) The Natural Progress of Religion and the Necessity of Revelation 8. Adam Ferguson, Stoicism and the Individual Alone Ferguson and the Naturalness of Religion Ferguson on the Link between Religion, Happiness and Society The Primacy of Polytheism and the Power of Superstition 9. George Campbell on Miracles and the Weakness of Hume’s ‘Science of Man’ Speculative Theology and Effective Affective Preaching Anti-Scepticism 10. John Gregory on Human Nature, Happiness and Religious Devotion 11. James Dunbar on Climate and Civil Religion. 12. James Burnett, Lord Monboddo on Egyptian Daemons Monboddo’s Curious ‘History of Man’. Monboddo’s Two Accounts of Religion 13. The Radicalism of James Hutton Philosophers and the Science of Religion Hutton on the Natural Progress of Religion 14. Dugald Stewart, Religion and the End of the ‘Science of Human Nature’ 15 Conclusion. 16 Appendix 1: Two and a Half ‘Four Stage’ Theories of Religion Appendix 2: Alexander Gerard and the Inadequacies of Progressive Histories of Religion Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationR. J. W. Mills is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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