xiii, 529 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm

"[This book] encompasses the 'philosophes' of the Enlightenment and the influence of thinkers like de Maistre and de Bonald and Lamennais, as well as the pseudo religious aspects of Marxism. It looks at painters like Zoffany and David and analyses their representations of their times; it considers the exploits of O'Connell, hero of Catholic emancipation, Mazzini, Mickiewicz and Garibaldi, and goes via nineteenth-century English and Russian literature to the epic struggles between Church and State, industry and the rise of Christian socialism, concluding with the advent of the 'old stone gods' that heralded the totalitarian political religions of the twentieth century."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Age of reason, age of faith -- 2. The Church and the revolution -- 3. Puritans thinking they are Spartans run amok in eighteenth-century Paris -- 4. The alliance of Throne and Altar in Restoration Europe -- 5. Chosen peoples: political Messianism and nationalism -- 6. Century of faiths -- 7. New men and sacred violence in late-nineteenth-century Russia -- 8. Rendering unto Caesar: Church versus State, State versus Church -- 9. The Churches and industrial society -- 10. Apocalypse 1914

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