Conscience and Conversion: Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France

Synopsis

Religious Liberty Is Usually Examined Within A Larger Discussion Of Church-state Relations, But Thomas Kselman Looks At Several Individuals In Restoration France Whose High-profile Conversions Fascinated Their Contemporaries. Exploring Their Reasons And The Repercussions They Faced, Kselman Demonstrates How This Expanded Sense Of Liberty Informs Our Secular Age. -- ‡c From Back Cover. From Toleration To Liberty: Religious Freedom As Concept And Constitutional Right -- Religious Wandering In French Romantic Culture -- Prodigal Sons And Daughters? Jewish Converts And Catholic Proselytism -- Family, Nation, And Freedom: Ivan Gagarin, The Swetchine Circle, And The Orthodox Road To Rome -- God And Liberty? Lamennais, Catholicism, And Freedom Of Conscience -- Mysticism, Despair, And Progress: George Sand’s Pursuit Of Religious Liberty – Philology And Freedom: Ernest Renan’s Struggle With Catholicism. Thomas Kselman. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 335-367) And Index.