EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Louis Xvi Of France, Jacobin, Maximilien Robespierre
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From separation between state and church to state control of the church. The treaties of westphalia established the parameters of state sovereignty and. Within those bounds, a form of religious toleration. French revolution when further in the direction of radical secularization. An issue in france to this day: principle of laicisme. The laity are those members of a community who are not clergy. French have been the strictest about the wearing of jihab. Some argue that the french concern with religious intolerance itself flips over into intolerance. Reference to supreme being and not god is intentional. Some kind of religious or practice is necessary to forge the intimate union of the nation state. Could you oppose it to the monk"s speech in brecht"s galileo. Religion is not there to ground people within a tradition or to give their miserable lives meaning but rather to provide transcendent justification for revolution. Revolution as a spectacle to delight the supreme being.
