Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. From Toleration to Liberty: Religious Freedom as Concept and Constitutional Right

2. Religious Wandering in French Romantic Culture

3. Prodigal Sons and Daughters? Jewish Converts and Catholic Proselytism

4. Family, Nation, and Freedom: Ivan Gagarin, the Swetchine Circle, and the Orthodox Road to Rome

5. God and Liberty? Lamennais, Catholicism, and Freedom of Conscience

6. Mysticism, Despair, and Progress: George Sand’s Pursuit of Religious Liberty

7. Philology and Freedom: Ernest Renan’s Struggle with Catholicism

Conclusion

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index