The French Revolution and Religion in Global Perspective, 1st ed. 2017 Freedom and Faith War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 Series

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. 

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.

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