Sacred and Secular Agency in Early Modern France: Fragments of Religion by Dr Sa

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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 laïcité 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.

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Sanja Perovic is Lecturer in the French Department, King's College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction Sanja Perovic \ 1. Robert R. Palmer's Catholics and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France: An Overdue Tribute Dale K. Van Kley \ 2. The Regency of Catherine de Medici: Political Reason during the Wars of Religion Denis Crouzet \ 3. Religion and Representation in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron Ellen McClure \ 4. The Gallican Mines: Martine de Bertereau's Restitution de Pluton, Astrology, Providence and Empire during the reign of Louis XIII Erik Thomson \ 5. Resacralizing the Self: Mysticism, Materialism, and Personhood in Eighteenth-Century France Charly Coleman \ 6. Permutations of the Theological-Political Analogy: Political Voluntarism, 'Transfer,' and Secularization Stephanie Frank \ 7. The French Revolution as World Religion Sanja Perovic \ 8. The Secularization of Execution: Heresy, Sacrifice and the Inquisition from Montesquieu to Maistre Francesco Manzini \ 9. Religion and the French Revolution; or, The Politics of Incarnation Craig Carson \ Postface: The Signature that Remains Sophie Fuggle \ Bibliography \ Index

Review

This is an exciting and importantbook which overturns a series of platitudes about both earlymodernity and France today. It marks a timely intervention in the field ofFrench studies and more broadly in historical debates about secularization.Perovic's collection makes an invigorating and illuminating contributionto early modern studies, but more importantly it proposes that we think aboutthe relation between early and late modernity in a new way. -- Dr Katherine Ibbett, Department of French at University College London, UKA stimulating, timely, and admirably interdisciplinary intervention in the ongoing debates concerning the secularizing evolution from the Renaissance to the Revolution, this volume will keenly interest — and amply reward — scholars and students from across a wide range of early-modern fields. -- Dr Larry Norman, Professor of French Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies at University of Chicago, USA and author of The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France (Chicago University Press)

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Challenging the master narrative of secularization, an exploration of the persistent influence of religious categories in the cultural landscape of Europe's first secular state.

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"This is an exciting and importantbook which overturns a series of platitudes about both earlymodernity and France today. It marks a timely intervention in the field ofFrench studies and more broadly in historical debates about secularization.Perovic's collection makes an invigorating and illuminating contributionto early modern studies, but more importantly it proposes that we think aboutthe relation between early and late modernity in a new way."

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Challenging the master narrative of secularization, an exploration of the persistent influence of religious categories in the cultural landscape of Europe's first secular state.

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Details ISBN1472511484 Short Title SACRED & SECULAR AGENCY IN EAR Pages 224 Language English ISBN-10 1472511484 ISBN-13 9781472511485 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-06-20 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Fragments of Religion DOI CBID181125 UK Release Date 2013-06-20 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2013-06-20 NZ Release Date 2013-06-20 Author Dr Sanja Perovic Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Edited by Sanja Perovic DEWEY 211.60944 Audience General We've got this

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