Mita Choudhury is professor of History at Vassar College. Her publications have focused on eighteenth-century French politics, religion, and gender. Daniel J. Watkins is assistant professor of History at Baylor University. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of eighteenth-century France and the Catholic Church.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsMita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins, IntroductionI. Belief, Enlightenment, and the political culture of the Old RegimeJeffrey D. Burson, Entangling the “century of lights” to disentangle the EnlightenmentDaniella Kostroun, Reflections of Jansenism in North America: La Salle and his lettersDavid A. Bell, A lawyer and a citizen revisited: the case of Claude-Joseph Prévost (1674–1753)Mita Choudhury, Masculinity and faith in the eighteenth century: comparing François de Pâris and Jean-Baptiste GirardCarolina Armenteros, Jesuits of India: adapting Van Kley’s “Religion and the age of ‘patriot’ reform” to South AsiaThomas E. Kaiser, From the parti dévot to the parti du roi: royalist ideology, foreign policy, and the recrystallization of court faction at the accession of Louis XVIDavid Garrioch, Varieties of religious behaviour in eighteenth-century Paris: the material culture of leaders of confraternitiesII . Belief in a Revolutionary ageJohnson Kent Wright, Religion, Enlightenment, and revolution: the Van Kley thesisJeffrey Ryan Harris, Jansenism, popular sovereignty, and the general will in the pre-Revolutionary crisisMonique Cottret, Jansenism during the Revolution: the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques in the face of dechristianizationValérie Guittienne-Mürger, The “Ides of August 1814”: the Jansenists and the image of Port-Royal in the anti-Jesuitism of the RestorationDaniel J. Watkins, A suppression revisited: Jansenism, conservatism, and the anti-Jesuit ordinances of 1828Dale K. Van Kley, Writing religion into the French century of lights: the confessions of a Protestant historian of the Catholic Jansenist controversySummariesBibliographyIndex

Winner of Baylor University's 2019 Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship.