Between secularization and reform : religion in the enlightenment : [Seminar meetings, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 2020-2022

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. 340 1 9789004523371-59833 2 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Notes on Contributors 9 1 Between Secularization and Reform: An Introduction 12 Part 1 Enlightenment and Secularization 24 2 Theological Revolution and the Entangled Emergence of Enlightenment Secularization 26 3 If Men Were Angels: Reason and Passion in the Enlightenment 57 4 The Triumph of Theocracy: French Political Thought, God, and the Question of Secularization in the Age of Enlightenment 79 5 Secularization in the Dutch Enlightenment: The Irrelevance of Philosophy 112 Part 2 The Religion(s) of the Enlightenment 140 6 The Ways of Clandestinity: Radical Cartesianism and Deism in Robert Challe (1659–1721) 142 7 More Voltaire Than Rousseau? Deism in the Revolutionary Cults of Reason and the Supreme Being 171 8 D’Holbach and Deism 208 9 ‘A Matter of Dangerous Consequence’: Molyneux and Locke on Toland 230 Part 3 Religious Enlighteners and Radical Reformers 246 10 Locke’s Reasonable Christianity: A Religious Enlightener’s Theology in Context 248 11 Does Quakerism Qualify as Kantian Enlightened Religion? 277 12 Radical Critics and Religious Enlighteners: The Cases of Edelmann and Kant 305 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 330 Index 360 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, they draw a thin line between religious reforms and attempts to eliminate religious faith from the public sphere and individuals' lives. Contributors include: 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 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. "Between Secularization and Reform: Religion in the Enlightenment provides a critical reappraisal of the idea that Enlightenment stands at the headwaters of secularization. In twelve chapters, the authors zoom in on 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 authors encourage revisiting the 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 at relegating faith from the public sphere and private lives"-- Provided by publisher "Between Secularization and Reform: Religion in the Enlightenment provides a critical reappraisal of the idea that Enlightenment stands 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 authors encourage revisiting the 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 at relegating faith from the public sphere and individuals' lives." -- Publisher, page four of cover The authors revisit the idea that Enlightenment spearheaded secularization. This book invites all to look at the Enlightenment religiosity as founded on a merger of religious criticism and heterodoxy.