Spiritual Despots by historian of religion J. Barton Scott zeroes in on the quaint term "priestcraft" to track anticlerical polemics in Britain and South Asia d
Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. In Spiritual
Excerpt from Spiritual Despotism The alliance between Church and State is loudly denounced as the source and means of spiritual despotism. But history shows tha
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