Conscience and Conversion: Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France
- Authors
- Thomas Kselman
- Publisher
- YaleUP
- Tags
- history , europe , france , religion , modern , 19th century
- ISBN
- 9780300235647
- Date
- 2018-02-06T20:44:59+00:00
- Size
- 2.50 MB
- Lang
- en
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.