Between Secularization and Reform

Religion in the Enlightenment
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-45871-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 340, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 745 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Between Secularization and Reform: Religion in the Enlightenment provides a critical reappraisal of the idea that the Enlightenment is at the headwaters of secularization. Contributors analyze early modern religious controversies, the significance of faith in national contexts, clandestine philosophy, varieties of rational religion, and the intermingling of heterodoxy with unbelief in the writings of key thinkers and less famous figures.

The volume encourages revisiting descriptions of the “Age of Lights” that use such categories as “moderate – radical” and “religious – secular.” Picturing the deep transformation undergone by religion in the Enlightenment, it draws a thin line between religious reforms and attempts to eliminate religious faith from the public sphere and individuals’ lives.

Contributors: Jeffrey D. Burson, Dominic Erdozain, Hasse Hämäläinen, Wojciech Kozyra, Ian Leask, Diego Lucci, Gianni Paganini, Stephen R. Palmquist, Mathias Sonnleithner, Anna Tomaszewska, Damien Tricoire, and Wiep van Bunge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomaszewska, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

1 Between Secularization and Reform: An Introduction

Anna Tomaszewska and Hasse Hämäläinen

Part 1: Enlightenment and Secularization

2 Theological Revolution and the Entangled Emergence of Enlightenment Secularization

Jeffrey D. Burson

3 If Men Were Angels: Reason and Passion in the Enlightenment

Dominic Erdozain

4 The Triumph of Theocracy: French Political Thought, God, and the Question of Secularization in the Age of Enlightenment

Damien Tricoire

5 Secularization in the Dutch Enlightenment: The Irrelevance of Philosophy

Wiep van Bunge

Part 2: The Religion(s) of the Enlightenment

6 The Ways of Clandestinity: Radical Cartesianism and Deism in Robert Challe (1659–1721)

Gianni Paganini

7 More Voltaire than Rousseau? Deism in the Revolutionary Cults of Reason and the Supreme Being

Mathias Sonnleithner

8 D’Holbach and Deism

Hasse Hämäläinen

9 ‘A Matter of Dangerous Consequence’: Molyneux and Locke on Toland

Ian Leask

Part 3: Religious Enlighteners and Radical Reformers

10 Locke’s Reasonable Christianity: A Religious Enlightener’s Theology in Context

Diego Lucci

11 Does Quakerism Qualify as Kantian Enlightened Religion?

Stephen R. Palmquist

12 Radical Critics and Religious Enlighteners: The Cases of Edelmann and Kant

Anna Tomaszewska

13 The Gospel of the New Principle: The Marcionian Leitmotif in Kant’s Religious Thought in the Context of Thomas Morgan and the German Enlightenment

Wojciech Kozyra

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Tomaszewska, Ph.D. (2011), is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University. She has published articles, edited collections, and monographs on both Kant and the Enlightenment, including Kant’s Rational Religion and the Radical Enlightenment: From Spinoza to Contemporary Debates (Bloomsbury, 2022).