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M. Choudhury and D.J. Watkins (eds.), Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France: Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley

M. Choudhury and D.J. Watkins (eds.), Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France: Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley

Publié le par Université de Lausanne (Source : Emma Burridge)

Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France: Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley

edited by Mita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins

Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2019:02

ISBN: 9781786941428, 400 pages, £65.00

 

Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France brings together top scholars in French history to explore how religious belief shaped identities and experiences in the long eighteenth century. Written in honor of Dale K. Van Kley, a pioneer in the history of religion and French politics, these essays illustrate how belief, Enlightenment, and Revolution coexisted and co-mingled in Old Regime and Revolutionary France.

Offers innovative methodological approaches to the study of religious faith beyond theology and institutions.

Through the range of sources and multiple approaches, illustrates how religious belief could be unpredictable, showing up in unlikely places, informing unlikely debates, and instituting unlikely changes.

Provides a fresh perspective on how scholars study religion, not simply as a reflection of a larger reality, but ideas and sensibilities closely connected with other social, political, gendered, or ethnic identities.

 

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations

Mita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins, Introduction

I. Belief, Enlightenment, and the political culture of the Old Regime
Jeffrey D. Burson, Entangling the “century of lights” to disentangle the Enlightenment
Daniella Kostroun, Reflections of Jansenism in North America: La Salle and his letters
David A. Bell, A lawyer and a citizen revisited: the case of Claude-Joseph Prévost (1674–1753)
Mita Choudhury, Masculinity and faith in the eighteenth century: comparing François de Pâris and Jean-Baptiste Girard
Carolina Armenteros, Jesuits of India: adapting Van Kley’s “Religion and the age of ‘patriot’ reform” to South Asia
Thomas E. Kaiser, From the parti dévot to the parti du roi: royalist ideology, foreign policy, and the recrystallization of court faction at the accession of Louis XVI
David Garrioch, Varieties of religious behaviour in eighteenth-century Paris: the material culture of leaders of confraternities

II . Belief in a Revolutionary age
Johnson Kent Wright, Religion, Enlightenment, and revolution: the Van Kley thesis
Jeffrey Ryan Harris, Jansenism, popular sovereignty, and the general will in the pre-Revolutionary crisis
Monique Cottret, Jansenism during the Revolution: the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques in the face of dechristianization
Valérie Guittienne-Mürger, The “Ides of August 1814”: the Jansenists and the image of Port-Royal in the anti-Jesuitism of the Restoration
Daniel J. Watkins, A suppression revisited: Jansenism, conservatism, and the anti-Jesuit ordinances of 1828
Dale K. Van Kley, Writing religion into the French century of lights: the confessions of a Protestant historian of the Catholic Jansenist controversy

Summaries
Bibliography
Index

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Mita Choudhury is professor of History at Vassar College. Her publications have focused on eighteenth-century French politics, religion, and gender.

Daniel J. Watkins is assistant professor of History at Baylor University. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of eighteenth-century France and the Catholic Church.

 

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.