TY - BOOK ID - 46173090 TI - Belief and politics in Enlightenment France : essays in honor of Dale K. van Kley AU - Van Kley, Dale Kenneth AU - Choudhury, Mita AU - Watkins, Daniel J. PY - 2019 SN - 9781786941428 1786941422 PB - Liverpool, UK : Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, DB - UniCat KW - Cultuurgeschiedenis KW - Geschiedenis van Frankrijk KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Christianisme et politique KW - Religion KW - Jansénisme KW - Mouvement des Lumières KW - Enlightenment KW - Faith. KW - History KW - France KW - Politics and government KW - Jansenists KW - Faith and reason KW - Influence KW - Christianity. KW - Église et État KW - Écrivains catholiques KW - Littérature didactique française KW - Roman religieux KW - Histoire et critique. KW - Van Kley, Dale Kenneth KW - Religion. KW - History of civilization KW - History of France KW - Christianisme et politique. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46173090 AB - 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. ER -