Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France by Mita Choudhury... - 9781786941428

Belief and Politics in Enlightenment FranceEssays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley\nAuthor(s): Mita Choudhury, Daniel J. Watkins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Voltaire Foundation\nISBN-13: 9781786941428, 978-1786941428\nSynopsis\nWritten in honor of Dale K. Van Kley, leading specialist on religion and politics in the Old Regime and the French Revolution, these essays examine how Jansenist belief shaped enlightenment ideas, cultural identities, social relations and politics in France throughout the long eighteenth century. Van Kleys work has invited scholars to think beyond the traditional parameters of the Enlightenment and to consider how religious faith functioned in the broader context of Old Regime, Revolutionary, and post-Revolutionary France.\n\nIn different ways, each essay challenges the idea of an inherent opposition between faith and Enlightenment, which likewise equates modernity with secularization. The authors within this.