Center for Research on Global Catholicism Conference
Saint Louis University
September 20 - 21, 2024
The Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, the Americas and Australia (1700– 1840): Balancing Loyalties between State, Nationality, Citizenship, and the Global Church
The Enlightenment, it has now been established, was as much a religious phenomenon as it was a secular one. This conference brings together leading scholars from around the world to interrogate the ways in which Catholics, in particular, interpreted and extended Enlightenment ideas to rethink and reform society, politics, the economy, education, science, and the arts on a global scale.
Plenary Speaker:
David Sorkin, Yale University
Discovering the Catholic Enlightenment: a Personal Account
Co-sponsored by University of Münster, and Washington University, Saint Louis
Contact: crgc@slu.edu for further information
