The French Revolution and Religion in Global Perspective

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.

Provides the first study of the impact of the French Revolution on religious communities within and outside of France Examines the French Revolution's relationship to religious warfare, religious political policy, migration, and print culture Focuses on both large groups (entire religious communities, diasporas, and mass emigration) as well as individuals (specific theologians, nuns, monks) Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur
Bryan Banks is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Adirondack, USA. He specializes in the religious history of France and the Atlantic World.
Erica Johnson is Assistant Professor of History at Francis Marion University, USA. She specializes in the French Atlantic world.

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'In this wide-ranging collection of essays by respected scholars, Erica Johnson and Bryan Banks have assembled an engaging and impressive volume that underscores the ways in which the French Revolution was a moment that redefined faith, piety, and the relationship of organized religious institutions to state and society. Impressive in its global and chronological scope, this edited volume advances our understanding of how women and men, laity and religious elites, from France to Revolutionary Saint Domingue and Guiana to twentieth-century Turkey, have all found themselves forced to grapple with, and refashion, notions of sacred and the secular in response to cultural transformations set in motion by the French Revolution.'

- Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University, USA 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.

Contenu
Introduction; Bryan A. Banks and Erica Johnson.- Part I: Religion and the Revolution in Global Perspective.- The Huguenot Diaspora and the Politics of Religion in Revolutionary France; Bryan A. Banks.- Counter-Revolution and Cosmopolitan Spirituality: Anquetil Duperron's Translation of the Upanishads; Blake Smith.- Religion and the Atlantic World: The Case of Saint-Domingue and French Guiana; Erica Johnson.- Secularization by stealth? Émigrés in Britain during the French Revolution; Kirsty Carpenter.- Part II: Global Legacies of Religion and the French Revolution.- Alexis de Tocqueville: Civil Religion, Race, and the Roots of French Universalism, 1830-1857; Whitney Abernathy Barnes.- Out of the Cloister and into the World: Catholic Nuns in the Aftermath of the Revolution; Sarah A. Curtis.- Lamennais' Dilemma: Reconciling Religion and Revolution; Thomas Kselman.- Religion and Secularization in Bavaria in the Age of Revolution, 1777-1817; Morten Nordhagen Ottosen.- Comparative Republican Religion: Eighteenth-Century France and Twentieth-Century Turkey; Hakan Gungor.- Epilogue; Bryan A. Banks and Erica Johnson.- Index.