Belief and politics in Enlightenment France : essays in honor of Dale K. Van Kley / edited by Mita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Choudhury, Mita, 1964- editor.

Watkins, Daniel J., editor.

Van Kley, Dale K., 1941- honouree, honouree.

Series:

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2019:02.

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 0435-2866 ; 2019:02

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--France--History--18th century.

Enlightenment.

Jansenists--Influence--History--18th century.

Jansenists.

Faith.

Religion.

Jansenists--Influence.

History.

France--History--18th century.

France.

France--Politics and government--18th century.

Politics and government.

France--Religion--18th century.

Genre:

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiii, 382 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, UK : Liverpool University Press, [2019]

Summary:

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. Firstly, how did religious belief continue to shape identities and experiences in the long eighteenth century? Secondly, 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 co-mingled in different contexts: politics and political culture, the social and cultural history of ideas, and the history of material culture.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Mita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins

I. Belief, enlightenment, and the political culture of the Old Regime. Entangling the "century of lights" to disentangle the Enlightenment / Jeffrey D. Burson

Reflections of Jansenism in North America : La Salle and his letters / Daniella Kostroun

A lawyer and a citizen revisited : the case of Claude-Joseph Prévost (1674-1753) / David A. Bell

Masculinity and faith in the eighteenth century : comparing François de Pâris and Jean-Baptiste Girard / Mita Choudhury

Jesuits of India : adapting Van Kley's "Religion and the age of 'patriot' reform" to South Asia / Carolina Armenteros

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 / Thomas E. Kaiser

Varieties of religious behavior in eighteenth-century Paris : the material culture of leaders of confraternaties / David Garrioch

II. Belief in a revolutionary age. Religion, enlightenment, and revolution : the Van Kley thesis / Johnson Kent Wright

Jansenism, popular sovereignty, and the general will in the pre-Revolutionary crisis / Jeffrey Ryan Harris

Jansenism during the Revolution : the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques in the face of dechristianization / Monique Cottret

The "ides of August 1814" : The Jansenists and the image of Port-Royal in the anti-Jesuitism of the restoration / Valérie Guittienne-Mürger

A suppression revisited : Jansenism, conservativsm, and the anti-Jesuit ordinances of 1828 / Daniel J. Watkins

Writing religion into the French century of lights : the confessions of a Protestant historian of the Catholic Jansenist controversy / Dale K. Van Kley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-365) and index.

ISBN:

9781786941428

1786941422

OCLC:

1085963644