Natural Religion and Politics in the French Revolution

在1793-1799年间，法国的革命精英们开始了一项前所未有的实验：他们试图通过建立新的邪教（理性崇拜、至高存在崇拜、神爱教），回归自然和理性的宗教。该研究项目将从宗教和政治史的角度探索这些努力的历史，这是以前从未有过的深度。它将研究以下现象：偶像破坏；书燃烧;建立邪教社区；教堂的改建和重建；典礼和仪式；邪教团体之间的竞争；对自然神论改革努力的抵制；自然神论改革努力与政治冲突之间的联系。因此，该项目将把思想史、宗教史和政治史联系起来。它将研究宗教运动和政党之间的相互作用，并询问新的邪教是否受欢迎。“法国大革命中的自然宗教和政治”也将与16和17世纪的激进改革努力进行比较。

In the years 1793-1799, French revolutionary elites started an unpreceded experiment: they endeavoured to return to a natural and reasonable religion by establishing new cults (Cult of Reason, Cult of the Supreme Being, Theophilanthropy). The research project will explore the history of such efforts in the perspective of religious and political history, which has never been done before in any depth. It will study the following phenomena: iconoclasm; book burning; creation of cultic communities; conversion and rebuilding of churches; ceremonies and rituals; rivalries between cultic communities; resistance to the deistic reform endeavours; links between deistic reform efforts and political conflicts. The project will thus link intellectual, religious and political history. It will study the interactions between religious movements and political parties, and ask whether the new cults were popular. “Natural religion and politics in the French Revolution“ will also develop comparatist perspectives with the radical reformation endeavours of the 16th and 17th centuries.