Theophilanthropy: Civil Religion and Secularization in the French Revolution

This dissertation examines how the implementation of Enlightenment ideas in the French Revolution gave birth to a new secular conception of the state and the invention of a new religion. I argue that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, representing shared assumptions across the Enlightenment, interpr...

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Other Authors: Deverse, Jonathan Douglas (authoraut)
Format: Others
Language:English
English
Published: Florida State University
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Online Access:http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_2015fall_Deverse_fsu_0071E_12862