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This book shows how the concept of 'religion' and 'the religions' arose out of controversies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. The birth of 'the religions', conceived to be sets of beliefs and practices, enabled the establishment of a new science of religion in which the various 'religions' were studied and impartially compared.Harrison, Peter is the author of 'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment' with ISBN 9780521385305 and ISBN 052138530X.
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