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DescriptionWritten  in honor of Dale K. Van Kley, leading specialist on religion and  politics in the Old Regime and the French Revolution, these essays  examine how Jansenist belief shaped enlightenment ideas, cultural  identities, social relations and politics in France throughout the long  eighteenth century. Van Kley’s work has invited scholars to think beyond  the traditional parameters of the Enlightenment and to consider how  religious faith functioned in the broader context of Old Regime,  Revolutionary, and post-Revolutionary France.In different ways, each  essay challenges the idea of an inherent opposition between faith and  Enlightenment, which likewise equates modernity with secularization. The  authors within this volume address two main questions.  Firstly, how  did religious belief continue to shape identities and experiences in the  long eighteenth century?  Secondly, how does this narrative of enduring  religious belief in eighteenth-century France help historians rethink  the Enlightenment and the French Revolution?The various  methodologies used by the contributors illustrate how belief,  Enlightenment, and Revolution coexisted and indeed co-mingled in  different contexts: politics and political culture, the social and  cultural history of ideas, and the history of material culture.Table of Contents:List of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsMita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins, IntroductionI. Belief, Enlightenment, and the political culture of the Old RegimeJeffrey D. Burson, Entangling the “century of lights” to disentangle the EnlightenmentDaniella Kostroun, Reflections of Jansenism in North America: La Salle and his lettersDavid A. Bell, A lawyer and a citizen revisited: the case of Claude-Joseph Prévost (1674–1753)Mita Choudhury, Masculinity and faith in the eighteenth century: comparing François de Pâris and Jean-Baptiste GirardCarolina Armenteros, Jesuits of India: adapting Van Kley’s “Religion and the age of ‘patriot’ reform” to South AsiaThomas E. Kaiser, From the parti dévot to the parti du roi: royalist ideology, foreign policy, and the recrystallization of court faction at the accession of Louis XVIDavid Garrioch, Varieties of religious behaviour in eighteenth-century Paris: the material culture of leaders of confraternitiesII . Belief in a Revolutionary ageJohnson Kent Wright, Religion, Enlightenment, and revolution: the Van Kley thesisJeffrey Ryan Harris, Jansenism, popular sovereignty, and the general will in the pre-Revolutionary crisisMonique Cottret, Jansenism during the Revolution: the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques in the face of dechristianizationValérie Guittienne-Mürger, The “Ides of August 1814”: the Jansenists and the image of Port-Royal in the anti-Jesuitism of the RestorationDaniel J. Watkins, A suppression revisited: Jansenism, conservatism, and the anti-Jesuit ordinances of 1828Dale K. Van Kley, Writing religion into the French century of lights: the confessions of a Protestant historian of the Catholic Jansenist controversySummariesBibliographyIndex---Mita Choudhury is professor of History at Vassar College. Her publications have focused on eighteenth-century French politics, religion, and gender.Daniel J. Watkins is assistant professor of History  at Baylor University. His research focuses on the cultural and  intellectual history of eighteenth-century France and the Catholic  Church.Source : éditeur et fabula.org