The French Revolution and religion in global perspective freedom and faith

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"This volume examines the French Revolution’s relationship with and impact on religious communities and religion in a transnational perspective. It challenges the traditional secular narrative of the French Revolution, exploring religious experience and representation during the Revolution, as well as the religious legacies that spanned from the eighteenth century to the present. Contributors explore the myriad ways that individuals, communities, and nation-states reshaped religion in France, Europe, the Atlantic Ocean, and around the world. "-- Read more... Abstract: "This volume examines the French Revolution’s relationship with and impact on religious communities and religion in a transnational perspective. It challenges the traditional secular narrative of the French Revolution, exploring religious experience and representation during the Revolution, as well as the religious legacies that spanned from the eighteenth century to the present. Contributors explore the myriad ways that individuals, communities, and nation-states reshaped religion in France, Europe, the Atlantic Ocean, and around the world. " Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Huguenot Diaspora and the Politics of Religion in Revolutionary France (Bryan A. Banks)....Pages 3-24 Counter-Revolution and Cosmopolitan Spirituality: Anquetil Duperron’s Translation of the Upanishads (Blake Smith)....Pages 25-48 Religion and the Atlantic World: The Case of Saint-Domingue and French Guiana (Erica Johnson)....Pages 49-71 Secularization by Stealth? Émigrés in Britain During the French Revolution (Kirsty Carpenter)....Pages 73-94 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 Alexis de Tocqueville: Civil Religion, Race, and the Roots of French Universalism, 1830–1857 (Whitney Abernathy Barnes)....Pages 97-119 Out of the Cloister and into the World: Catholic Nuns in the Aftermath of the Revolution (Sarah A. Curtis)....Pages 121-143 Lamennais’ Dilemma: Reconciling Religion and Revolution (Thomas Kselman)....Pages 145-172 Religion and Secularization in Bavaria in the Age of Revolution, 1777–1817 (Morten Nordhagen Ottosen)....Pages 173-201 Comparative Republican Religion: Eighteenth-Century France and Twentieth-Century Turkey (Hakan Gungor)....Pages 203-219 Back Matter ....Pages 221-232