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Introduction

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  • Sacks David Harris

    (Reed College, Portland, 97202-8199, OR, USA)

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“Apocalypticism” and “Globalization” are not commonly juxtaposed to one another, with the former taken to begin in ancient times and the latter taken to be a modern phenomenon. This Forum explores the convergence of thoughts about the history of the world and the practices those thoughts engendered among the peoples of Western Europe and the Mediterranean region during the “early modern” era, roughly between 1400 and 1800. Scholars in history and the humanities commonly regard this period as a long transition in a “from-to” narrative when “pre-modern” institutions and intellectual and cultural traditions, characterized by the entanglements of the worldly with the divine, the temporal with the spiritual, the secular with the sacred, and the microcosm with the macrocosm, were transformed into “modernity” by the replacement of beliefs dependent on faith with knowledge established by reason. The essays in this Forum take a different approach by treating the development of modern understandings of the political, social and natural world as emerging from religiously-grounded discourse, debate, and practice in the early modern era.

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  • Sacks David Harris, 2022. "Introduction," New Global Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 16(2), pages 157-164, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:nglost:v:16:y:2022:i:2:p:157-164:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2021-0023
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