Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries tofind what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, andHasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures include Mu?ammad Ibn abd al-Wa?hab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf, JonathanEdwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel Ba'al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of theconflicted relationship between the "evangelical" movements in all three Abrahamic religionsand the ideas of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century,the book reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and forward to the 21st forthe legacy of these movements. This text appeals to students and researchers in manyfields, including Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while also appealing to the interested lay reader.