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Raoul Vaneigem Bill Brown

Resistance to Christianity

A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century

Raoul Vaneigem, Bill Brown

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ERIS
23 February 2024

History: earliest times to present day; Religion & beliefs

"Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century is a revisionary account of the forms of thought and belief that have been rejected or suppressed by orthodox Christianity over the course of the centuries. Formidably erudite without ever drifting into dry scholasticism, Resistance to Christianity ranges from the origins of the Bible to the fraught doctrinal controversies of the fourth century to the Levellers and Jansenists of the early modern period, thereby revealing the too-little-known history that lies behind the modern world's theological horizons.

Resistance to Christianity is far more, however, than a study of religious movements and ideas; indeed, Vaneigem is bracingly unapologetic in his ambition ""to examine the resistance that the inclination to natural liberty has, for nearly twenty centuries, opposed to . . . Christian oppression.""

The story of how men and women have again and again resisted the authoritarian implications of religious orthodoxy is, above all, a crucial strand of the history of human freedom.

Bill Brown's translation makes available in English a major work by one of the preeminent thinkers of our time. A remarkable feat of historical scholarship that deserves to be widely read, Resistance to Christianity represents radical thought at its most exciting, incisive, and compelling."

By: Raoul Vaneigem, Bill Brown
Imprint: ERIS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9781912475605
ISBN 10: 191247560X
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 23 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Raoul Vaneigem is a historian and social theorist who was prominently associated with the Situationist International. He is the author of numerous books, including the highly influential The Revolution of Everyday Life. Among other of his works available in English are The Movement of the Free Spirit and A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings. He presently divides his time between Belgium and Barcelona. Bill Brown received an MA in critical theory and a Ph.D. in modern American and European literature from the University at Buffalo. He has taught at The Rhode Island School of Design and has translated hundreds of letters, essays and books, most of them by members of the Situationist International.

Reviews for Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century

Nothing less than a complete historical account of the development of Christianity.--Alastair J. Hemmens, Cardiff University

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Resistance to Christianity

A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century

Raoul Vaneigem, Bill Brown

$65.95

Paperback

Reviews for Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century

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