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Lynn Mitchell – Religion

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Science, Medicine and Religion

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Revolutions in Religion

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Science and Religion as Historical Phenomena

Professor Courtenay Raia lectures on science and religion as historical phenomena that have evolved over time. Examines the earlier mind-set before 1700 when into science fitted elements that came eventually to be seen as magical. THe course also question how Western cosmologies became “disenchanted.” Magical tradition. Some clips and images may have been blurred or […]

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The Victorians: Religion and Science

If there was any single belief that characterized the Victorian era it was Christian belief. Religion pervaded social and political life to an extent almost unimaginable today. Yet this was also an age of major scientific progress and discovery. Ranging from Darwin’s Origin of Species to Strauss’s Life of Jesus, new techniques and approaches undermined […]

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Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians

Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) Professor Wrightson reviews the conflicts which developed within the Church of England in the early seventeenth century and played a role in the growing tensions which led to the English civil wars. Wrightson begins by describing the ‘Jacobethan consensus’ which largely […]

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Late Medieval Religion and Its Critics

Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) In this lecture Professor Wrightson surveys the religious landscape of England during the later medieval period through to the reign of Henry VIII and the beginnings of the reformation. He notes that while the late medieval church was more vibrant and […]

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Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts

This course is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Particular issues addressed in the lectures will include: the changing social structure; households; local communities; gender roles; economic development; urbanization; religious change from the Reformation to the Act of Toleration; the […]

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Final Lecture: Science, Magic, and Religion

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Religion, Regicide, and Revolution