Between Secularization and Reform: Religion in the Enlightenment

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Between Secularization and Reform: Religion in the Enlightenment provides a critical reappraisal of the idea that the Enlightenment is at the headwaters of secularization. Contributors analyze early modern religious controversies, the significance of faith in national contexts, clandestine philosophy, varieties of rational religion, and the intermingling of heterodoxy with unbelief in the writings of key thinkers and less famous figures. The volume encourages revisiting descriptions of the “Age of Lights” that use such categories as “moderate – radical” and “religious – secular.” Picturing the deep transformation undergone by religion in the Enlightenment, it draws a thin line between religious reforms and attempts to eliminate religious faith from the public sphere and individuals’ lives. 340 9789004523371-59833 Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1 Between Secularization and Reform: An Introduction Part 1 Enlightenment and Secularization 2 Theological Revolution and the Entangled Emergence of Enlightenment Secularization 3 If Men Were Angels: Reason and Passion in the Enlightenment 4 The Triumph of Theocracy: French Political Thought, God, and the Question of Secularization in the Age of Enlightenment 5 Secularization in the Dutch Enlightenment: The Irrelevance of Philosophy Part 2 The Religion(s) of the Enlightenment 6 The Ways of Clandestinity: Radical Cartesianism and Deism in Robert Challe (1659–1721) 7 More Voltaire Than Rousseau? Deism in the Revolutionary Cults of Reason and the Supreme Being 8 D’Holbach and Deism 9 ‘A Matter of Dangerous Consequence’: Molyneux and Locke on Toland Part 3 Religious Enlighteners and Radical Reformers 10 Locke’s Reasonable Christianity: A Religious Enlightener’s Theology in Context 11 Does Quakerism Qualify as Kantian Enlightened Religion? 12 Radical Critics and Religious Enlighteners: The Cases of Edelmann and Kant 13 The Gospel of the New Principle: The Marcionian Leitmotif in Kant’s Religious Thought in the Context of Thomas Morgan and the German Enlightenment Index