Contributions réunies en hommage à D.K. Van Kley, spécialiste des relations entre religion et politique sous l'Ancien Régime et la Révolution. Elles soulignent notamment combien les idées jansénistes ont façonné les idées de Lumières, les relations sociales et la politique tout au long du XVIIIe siècle. ©Electre 2025
Written 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 Kley's 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.
In 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 volume address two main questions. First, how did religious belief continue to shape identities and experiences in the long eighteenth century ? Second, how does this narrative of enduring religious belief in eighteenth-century France help historians rethink the Enlightenment and the French Revolution ?
The various methodologies used by the contributors illustrate how belief, Enlightenment, and Revolution coexisted and indeed comingled in different contexts : politics and political culture, the social and cultural history of ideas, and the history of material culture.
Paru le : 14/02/2019
Thématique : Histoire moderne générale
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Liverpool University Press
Voltaire Foundation
Collection(s) : Oxford university studies in the Enlightenment
Contributeur(s) : Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Mita Choudhury - Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Daniel P. Watkins
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-1-78694-142-8
EAN13 : 9781786941428
Reliure : Broché
Pages : XIII-382
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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