TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daniel Schönpflug
AU  - Martin Schulze Wessel
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Redefining the Sacred
T2  - Religion in the French and Russian Revolutions
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109258
N2  - The revolutions of 1789 and 1917 were defining moments for religious history in France, Russia, and even in Europe as a whole. Drawing on the self-portrayals of some of the most radical actors, historians have presented revolutionaries as enemies of the church, and men of the church either as counter-revolutionaries or as victims of revolution. Revolution and religion have appeared as antagonistic forces, representing the struggle of modernity against tradition. Only recently have these conventional patterns of interpretation been questioned. Historians explore the religious origins of revolutions, look at clergymen and churches as revolutionary actors and analyze how revolutionary movements appropriate religious patterns of thought and behavior. In the French and in the Russian context, revolutions are seen as moments in which the sacred was redefined.
KW  - Political Dissent, Secularization, Religious Dissent, Revolutionizing the Church, Revolutionary Cults
LA  - English
ER  -