From Toleration to Liberty: Religious Freedom as Concept and Constitutional Right -- Religious Wandering in French Romantic Culture -- Prodigal Sons and Daughters? Jewish Converts and Catholic Proselytism -- Family, Nation, and Freedom: Ivan Gagarin, the Swetchine Circle, and the Orthodox Road to Rome -- God and Liberty? Lamennais, Catholicism, and Freedom of Conscience -- Mysticism, Despair, and Progress: George Sand's Pursuit of Religious Liberty -- Philology and Freedom: Ernest Renan's Struggle with Catholicism.
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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. --! From back cover.