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Ordre militaire-religieux issu des Croisades, chassé du Levant en 1522, les Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, mieux connus sous le nom de chevaliers de Malte, établissent en 1530 leur couvent en Méditerranée occidentale, devenant des acteurs essentiels de l’histoire de l’Europe dans la première modernité. Cet ordre, constitué par la fine fleur de la noblesse européenne, compte aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles un nombre très élevé de nobles français et particulièrement provençaux ; ces derniers représentent le quart des grands-maîtres élus en un siècle et demi. Les chevaliers se spécialisent dans la définition nobiliaire, par l’établissement d’un système d’admissions fondé sur la constitution d’écritures et de généalogies et sur la fourniture de preuves de la pureté du sang et de la race. Cet ordre, symbole d’une perpétuation de la guerre sainte en Méditerranée, est aussi confronté à la diffusion du protestantisme au sein des noblesses européennes, qui l’oblige à conforter son identité religieuse par l’application stricte dans le couvent de la Réforme catholique, œuvrant à une grande discipline des corps et des mœurs des chevaliers. Dans un couvent dirigé à Malte par des grands-maîtres qui mettent en place une véritable vie de cour, les chevaliers sont également sensibilisés aux théories et aux évolutions politiques qui s’observent en Europe : des conjurations nobiliaires éclatent, qui tentent en vain de résister aux ambitions princières des grands-maîtres.

Military religious orders --- Nobility --- Knights and knighthood --- Christianity and politics --- Ordres militaires religieux --- Chevalerie --- Christianisme et politique --- Noblesse --- History --- Histoire --- Knights of Malta --- Chevaliers de Malte --- Ordre souverain, militaire et hospitalier de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem, de Rhodes et de Malte --- Ordre souverain, militaire et hospitalier de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem, de Rhodes et de Malte. --- Military religious orders - Europe - History --- Nobility - Europe - History --- Knights and knighthood - Europe - History --- Christianity and politics - Europe - History --- Ordres militaires religieux - Europe - Histoire --- Chevalerie - Europe - Histoire --- Christianisme et politique - Europe - Histoire --- Noblesse - Europe - Histoire --- noblesse --- hospitalier --- méditerranée --- couvent --- chevalier de malte --- identité religieuse

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In God's Empire, Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wide-ranging reassessment of the religious character of the second British empire provides a clear account of the promotional strategies of the major churches and church parties which worked to plant settler Christianity in British domains. Based on extensive use of original archival and rare published sources, the author explores major debates such as the relationship between religion and colonization, church-state relations, Irish Catholics in the empire, the impact of the Scottish Disruption on colonial Presbyterianism, competition between Evangelicals and other Anglicans in the colonies, and between British and American strands of Methodism in British North America.

Missions, British --- Christianity and politics --- Missions britanniques --- Christianisme et politique --- History --- Histoire --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Colonies --- Religion. --- Church history --- Religion --- Histoire religieuse --- Imperialism. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Missions. --- Christian missions --- Christianity --- Missions, Foreign --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing --- Missions --- Arts and Humanities

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At a time when secular liberalism is in crisis and when the civic contribution of religion is being re-assessed, the rich tradition of Christian political theology demands renewed attention. This book, based on the 2001 Bampton Lectures, explores the relationship of the church both to the state and civil institutions. Arguing that theological approaches to the state were often situated within the context of Christendom and are therefore outmoded, the author claims that a more differentiated approach can be developed by attention to the concept of civil society. The book offers a critical assessment of the effect of the First Amendment in the USA and, in a concluding chapter, it defends the case for continuing disestablishment in England and Scotland.

Christianity and politics. --- Church and state. --- Christianisme et politique --- Eglise et Etat --- Christianity and politics --- Church and state --- Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- State, The --- Christianity --- Church and politics --- Politics and Christianity --- Politics and the church --- Political science --- Political aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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This 2002 book attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the early modern papacy by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court. The period covered extends from the Renaissance to the aftermath of the peace of Westphalia in 1648 - after which the papacy was reduced to a mainly spiritual role. Based on research in Italian and other European archives, the book concentrates on the factions at the Roman court and in the college of cardinals. The sacred college came under great international pressure during the election of a new pope, and consequently such figures as foreign ambassadors and foreign cardinals are examined, as well as political liaisons and social contacts at court. Finally, the book includes an analysis of the ambiguous nature of Roman ceremonial, which was both religious and secular: a reflection of the power struggle both in Rome and in Europe.

Papal courts --- Christianity and politics --- History. --- Catholic Church --- History --- Collegium Cardinalium --- History of Italy --- Christian church history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Vatican City --- Papacy --- Cour pontificale --- Papauté --- Christianisme et politique --- Histoire --- Catholic Church. --- Arts and Humanities --- Christianity --- Church and politics --- Politics and Christianity --- Politics and the church --- Political science --- Courts, Papal --- Popes --- Political aspects --- Court --- Papal courts - History. --- Christianity and politics - Catholic Church - History.

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Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to dechristianize the French state and citizens, it actually had long-term religious-even Christian-origins, claims Dale Van Kley in this controversial new book. Looking back at the two and a half centuries that preceded the revolution, Van Kley explores the diverse, often warring religious strands that influenced political events up to the revolution.Van Kley draws on a wealth of primary sources to show that French royal absolutism was first a product and then a casualty of religious conflict. On the one hand, the religious civil wars of the sixteenth century between the Calvinist and Catholic internationals gave rise to Bourbon divine-right absolutism in the seventeenth century. On the other hand, Jansenist-related religious conflicts in the eighteenth century helped to "desacralize" the monarchy and along with it the French Catholic clergy, which was closely identified with Bourbon absolutism. The religious conflicts of the eighteenth century also made a more direct contribution to the revolution, for they left a legacy of protopolitical and ideological parties (such as the Patriot party, a successor to the Jansenist party), whose rhetoric affected the content of revolutionary as well as counterrevolutionary political culture. Even in its dechristianizing phase, says Van Kley, revolutionary political culture was considerably more indebted to varieties of French Catholicism than it realized.

Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- France --- Christianity and politics --- Secularism --- Church and state --- Ethics --- Irreligion --- Utilitarianism --- Atheism --- Postsecularism --- Secularization (Theology) --- Christianity --- Church and politics --- Politics and Christianity --- Politics and the church --- Political science --- History --- Political aspects --- Religious aspects. --- Church history --- Religious history --- EGLISE ET ETAT --- FRANCE --- CHRISTIANISME ET POLITIQUE --- JANSENISME --- HISTOIRE --- HISTOIRE RELIGIEUSE --- 17E-18E SIECLES --- 1789-1799 (REVOLUTION) --- CAUSES --- 16E-18E SIECLES --- 18E SIECLE