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Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Rethinking the Terrain -- 2 The Bahá'ís: Prosociality and Global Civilization -- 3 Soka Gakkai and Cosmic Humanism -- 4 Ananda Marga and Utopian Futurism -- 5 Brahma Kumaris: Modernism on the Way to Apocalypse -- 6 The Church Universal and Triumphant: The Democratization of Counterfactuality -- 7 The Charismatic Latter-day Saints -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix: Latter-day Saint Doctrinal Innovations -- Glossary of Technical Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Imprint.

Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition

This paper addresses the relation between the natural sciences and the humanities with reference to the work of Ian Hunter. It discusses the history of, role of philosophy in, and value of the humanities; the question of historicism; the issue of critique; and the role of theology in the humanities, all matters raised by Hunter's work. The paper suggests that a reinvented humanities might pay more attention to philosophy and the sciences, including theology. It asks how far such a perspective is compatible with Ian Hunter's pioneering work on the humanities and intellectual history. The paper concludes that a middle position, one between Hunter's historicising and an emphasis on naturalistic constraints, may be possible. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

This paper discusses attempts to think historicity in the work of the theologian Rudolf Bultmann and the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg. It then draws on the work of the Jesuit theologian Robert Doran in order to suggest how an historical pragmatics without historicism might be relevant to a future theology with social import.