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The opposition between 'religion' and 'modernity' has long held the status of a self-evident truth. Recently, however, there has been a growing realization that religion has not died out and may be more compatible with modern society than previously assumed.This development is particularly striking in France where laicite has long been the official doctrine. How did religion become opposed to the secular and modern? If distinctions between sacred and secular are less adequate than commonly believed, how do these two categories interact?Addressing these questions, this book explores the persistence of religious categories on the cultural landscape of early modern France. France was the birthplace of Europe's first secular state and the centre of two movements considered indispensable to secularization - the Enlightenment and Revolution of 1789. As such France is vital for understanding how religious antecedents informed modern political institutions and ideals. By uncovering the role of religion in shaping categories most often associated with modernity this book offers a new perspective on the master narrative of secularization.
Contents
1. Introduction: Secularization and the Early Modern Divide Sanja Perovic; 2. Economic Theology: Crisis in French Providential Ideas of Empire Erik Thomson; 3. Embodiment and Visual Presence: Secularizing the Image in Early Modern French Literature Ellen McClure; 4. Resacralizing the Self: Mysticism, Materialism and Personhood in Eighteenth-Century France Charly Coleman; 5. The Secularization of Punishment and Execution: Morellet, Maistre and the Inquisition Francesco Manzini; 6. Unintended Consequences of the Theological-Political Analogy: Political Voluntarism and the General Will Stephanie Frank; 7. The French Revolution as World Religion Sanja Perovic; 8. Michelet and the Messianism of the French Revolution Craig Carson; 9. Postface: The Signature that Remains: Schmidt, Agamben and Political Theology Sophie Fuggle; Bibliography; Index.
