Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804

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Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804

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This important book examines the impact of the Revolution on religious life in France. Catholic structures and beliefs are central, but minorities like Protestants and Jews are not neglected, as it surveys the fate of the confessional state and the extent of 'de-Christianization'. Based on the latest scholarship, and set within the European context, the author emphasizes the turbulence of church-state relations, the role of religion in determining political loyalties, and the tenacious survival of religious practice in the late Eighteenth-century.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
SECTION A: ANCIENT REGIME RELIGION
The Gallican Church Structures and Personnel
Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century France: Varieties of Practice and Belief
Protestants and Jews
The Church and the Enlightenment
SECTION B: THE IMPACT OF REVOLUTION
The Gallican Church and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1786-1790
The Collapse of the Historic Ecclesiastical Order, 1789-90
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
SECTION C: FROM SCHISM TO TERROR, 1791-1795
Church, State and Revolution, 1791-1795
The Survival of Religious Groups
Dechristianisation and the Alternatives to Christianity
SECTION D: TOWARDS A NEW RELIGIOUS ORDER: THE DIRECTORY AND THE CONSULATE
The Churches and the State, 1795-1799
The Napoleonic Religion Settlement, 1799-1804
Conclusion
Index.

Product details

Published Oct 12 2000
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 448
ISBN 9780333583258
Imprint Red Globe Press
Dimensions Not specified
Series European Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Nigel Aston

NIGEL ASTON is Reader in History at the University…

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