Religion and the Science of Human Nature in the Scottish Enlightenment

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
	Religion and Precursors to the Scottish “Science of Man”
	References
2 Religion and the Start of the Science of Human Nature: Campbell, Turnbull and Hume
	George Turnbull on Religion and the “Moral Anatomy” of the Mind
	Archibald Campbell on Mythography and the Science of Man
	David Hume’s Treatise and the “Science of Man”
	References
3 David Hume and the Emptiness of Natural Religion
	Religion, Imagination and the Passions
	The Psychology of Miracles
	Religion’s Relationship with Philosophy: Past and Future
	The Practical Consequences of Hume’s Study of Religion
	References
4 Adam Smith on Religious Psychology in Society
	The Histories of Philosophy and of Physics
	The Psychology of Religion in the Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
	Religious Sects and Social Stability in the Wealth of Nations
	The Decline and Fall of Medieval Catholicism
	References
5 Henry Home, Lord Kames on Mechanistic Human Nature
	Kames’s Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751)
	The Sketches of the History of Man (1774) and the “Sense of Deity”
	Kames on the Improvement of Theology
	On the Character of Religious Worship
	Religion and Morality
	Allegory and Myth as Childish Fictions
	References
6 David Hume’s “Natural History of Religion” (1757)
	Human Nature and the Lack of Universality
	The “Natural Progress” of Religion?
	References
7 William Robertson on Revelation and the Limits of Progress
	Robertson’s Necessity of Revelation at the Time of Christ’s Mission
	True Religion and the Necessity of Social Progress
	Superstition’s Role in Limiting of Progress: The History of America (1777)
	The Natural Progress of Religion and the Necessity of Revelation
	References
8 Adam Ferguson, Stoicism and the Individual Alone
	Ferguson and the Naturalness of Religion
	Ferguson on the Link Between Religion, Happiness and Society
	The Primacy of Theism and the Power of Superstition
	References
9 George Campbell on Miracles and the Weakness of Hume’s “Science of Man”
	References
10 John Gregory on Human Nature, Happiness and Religious Devotion
	Speculative Theology and Effective Affective Preaching
	Anti-Scepticism
	References
11 James Dunbar on Climate and Civil Religion
	References
12 James Burnett, Lord Monboddo on Egyptian Daemons
	Monboddo’s Curious “History of Man”
	Monboddo’s Two Accounts of Religion
	References
13 The Radicalism of James Hutton
	Philosophers and the Science of Religion
	Hutton on the Natural Progress of Religion
	The Alignment of “Christianity” and Philosophy
	References
14 Dugald Stewart, Religion and the End of the “Science of Human Nature”
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15 Conclusion
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Appendix 1: Two and a Half ‘Four Stage’ Theories of Religion
References to Works Cited
Appendix 2: Alexander Gerard and the Inadequacies of Progressive Histories of Religion
References to Works Cited
Index