Religion and Unbelief in the Scottish (After-) Enlightenment

In this episode of New Work in Intellectual History, Dr Felicity Loughlin discusses how notions of Paganism and Unbelief in religious debates influenced Scottish intellectual life from the 1770s to the early nineteenth century. Based on her forthcoming monograph The Scottish Enlightenment Confronts the Gods: Paganism & the Nature of Religion, Felicity expands on how paganism was studied in the Scottish Enlightenment and how these studies influenced religious and philosophical debates of the time. Along her contribution Religion and Unbelief after the Scottish Enlightenment, c. 1790-1843 to the After the Enlightenment project, she continues to explain how notions of Unbelief developed following the Enlightenment period. 

Dr Felicity Loughlin is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of History at the University of St Andrews. Her work focusses on intellectual, cultural and religious history of Scotland and Europe from 1650 to 1850.