Religion, secularization, and political thought : Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill /

Religion, secularization, and political thought : Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill / edited by James E. Crimmins. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1989. - 202 p. ; 23 cm.

Collection of essays, the result of a series of seminars held at Huron College during the academic year 1987-1988.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.

The religious and the secular in the work of Thomas Hobbes / S.A. State -- John Locke, Socinian or natural law theorist? / David Wootton -- The religious, the secular, and the worldly / Roger L. Emerson -- Science and secularization in Hume, Smith, and Bentham / Douglas G. Long -- Edmund Burke and John Wesley / Frederick Dreyer -- Religion, utility, and politics / James E. Crimmins -- From God to man? / T.R. Sansom -- J.S. Mill and the religion of humanity / Richard Vernon.

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Religion--History.
Secularism--History.
Political science--History.--Great Britain

BL50 / .R4616 1989

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