Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe, a collection of
original essays from leading scholars, demonstrates that the
collapse of the post-Reformation confessional state was more the
result of religious dissent from within, much of it orthodox, than
attacks of an anti-religious Enlightenment. In sharp contrast to
the Reformation-era religious conflicts which tended to pit
Protestant and Catholic confessions and states against each other,
the eighteenth-century religious conflicts described in Religion
and Politics in Enlightenment Europe took place within the various
confessional establishments and states that founded and maintained
them, such as Russian Orthodoxy in the East and the Anglican
Establishment in England and Ireland.
In the course of its analysis, Religion and Politics in
Enlightenment Europe destroys the notion of any kind of privileged
relationship between "religion" and political or social "reaction."
This book reveals the religious roots of modern ideas of individual
rights and limitations on government, as well as the imperative of
political order and the need for social hierarchy. It also shows
the impossibility of any purely secular treatment of
eighteenth-century European political history or institutions.
Based on fresh, primary research as well as a synthesis of
secondary sources, Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe
turns the familiar eighteenth century of the textbooks upside down
and inside out, challenging the dominant narratives of
secularization and inevitable conclusion in the French
Revolution.
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