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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.

Cultuurgeschiedenis --- Geschiedenis van Frankrijk --- anno 1700-1799 --- Christianisme et politique --- Religion --- Jansénisme --- Mouvement des Lumières --- Enlightenment --- Faith. --- History --- France --- Politics and government --- Jansenists --- Faith and reason --- Influence --- Christianity. --- Église et État --- Écrivains catholiques --- Littérature didactique française --- Roman religieux --- Histoire et critique. --- Van Kley, Dale Kenneth --- Religion. --- History of civilization --- History of France --- Christianisme et politique.

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Au siècle des Lumières, le roman de nature édifiante emprunte de nouvelles avenues, embrassant la forme didactique et le parti antiphilosophique. Au contact des idées et des valeurs que défendent Encyclopédistes et philosophes, les romanciers et les romancières sont amenés à s'interroger sur la religion dans ses rapports sociaux et moraux avec la société et à assortir les acquis philosophiques aux dogmes chrétiens à l'aide d'un discours alliant foi et raison. En mobilisant la sensibilité, ils proposent un expédient pieux selon lequel la religion serait mise au service de l'ordre établi et de la cohésion sociale. Le discours optimiste que donnent à lire les romans des Lumières catholiques renoue avec l'idée de perfectibilité humaine et de progrès social, dévoilant un espace de chevauchement qui brouille les frontières entre philosophie et antiphilosophie et qui témoigne de leur porosité. Cet ouvrage collectif a pour objectifs d'explorer les entreprises de mise en roman des Lumières catholiques dans leurs dimensions narrative, rhétorique, topique et philosophique afin d'en souligner l'originalité et la complexité, d'exposer leur apport aux débats qui marquent le XVIIIe siècle et de les réhabiliter dans la constellation littéraire des Lumières ; "In the eighteenth century, edifying novels explored new strategies, embracing the didactic form and the antiphilosophic party. Confronted with the ideas and values that the Encyclopaedists and philosophers defended, Catholic novelists were led to consider religion in its moral and social relationships to society and to reconcile philosophical findings and Christian doctrines by producing discourses on the union of faith and reason. By mobilizing sensibility, they propose a pious expedient whereby religion would serve the established order and maintain social cohesion. The optimistic discourse found in the novels of the Catholic Enlightenment is characterised by its belief in human perfectibility and social progress, which reveals an in-between space where the line separating philosophy from anti-philosophy is blurred and shown to be quite porous. This edited collection aims to study the novelistic experiments of the Catholic Enlightenment in their narrative, rhetorical, topical, and philosophical dimensions in order to show their originality and complexity, to reveal their contributions in the great debates of the eighteenth century, and to give them back their due place in the literary constellation of the Enlightenment.

Religious fiction, French --- Didactic fiction, French --- Enlightenment --- French didactic fiction --- French fiction --- French religious fiction --- History and criticism --- Catholic authors&delete& --- Christelijke kerkgeschiedenis --- Verhalend proza --- Sociologische literatuurstudie --- Franse letterkunde --- anno 1700-1799 --- Roman --- Französisch --- Katholizismus --- Aufklärung --- Mouvement des Lumières. --- Roman français. --- Catholiques. --- Geschichte 1680-1790 --- History and criticism. --- Catholic authors --- Mouvement des Lumières --- Roman religieux --- Littérature didactique française --- Écrivains catholiques --- Roman français --- Catholiques --- Histoire et critique. --- Christian church history --- Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- French literature --- Mouvement des Lumières --- Littérature didactique française --- Écrivains catholiques --- Roman français.