French Revolution and Religion in Global Perspective

Bryan Banks is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Adirondack, USA. He specializes in the religious history of France and the Atlantic World. Erica Johnson is Assistant Professor of History at Francis Marion University, USA. She specializes in the French Atlantic world.

• Introduction; Bryan A. Banks and Erica Johnson.- Part I: Religion and the Revolution in Global Perspective.- The Huguenot Diaspora and the Politics of Religion in Revolutionary France; Bryan A. Banks.- Counter-Revolution and Cosmopolitan Spirituality: Anquetil Duperron's Translation of the Upanishads; Blake Smith.- Religion and the Atlantic World: The Case of Saint-Domingue and French Guiana; Erica Johnson.- Secularization by stealth?  Émigrés in Britain during the French Revolution; Kirsty Carpenter.- Part II:  Global Legacies of Religion and the French Revolution.- Alexis de Tocqueville: Civil Religion, Race, and the Roots of French Universalism, 1830-1857; Whitney Abernathy Barnes.- Out of the Cloister and into the World:  Catholic Nuns in the Aftermath of the Revolution; Sarah A. Curtis.- Lamennais’ Dilemma: Reconciling Religion and Revolution; Thomas Kselman.- Religion and Secularization in Bavaria in the Age of Revolution, 1777-1817; Morten Nordhagen Ottosen.- Comparative Republican Religion: Eighteenth-Century France and Twentieth-Century Turkey; Hakan Gungor.- Epilogue; Bryan A. Banks and Erica Johnson.- Index.