"How Robespierre's Hostility Toward Traditional Religion Led to the Ter" by Nuray Bamanie

Date

1-16-2025

Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD)

Chair

J. Nathan Martin

Keywords

History, Robespierre, Terror

Disciplines

History

Abstract

The research attempts to explain, from the perspective of Historical Studies of Revolutions, Maximilien Robespierre's hostility to France's state religion and how it led to the excesses of the Terror between 1792-1794. Robespierre appeared at the most radical phase of the Revolution, that began in 1792 and lasted up to 1794. He placed the belief in the Revolution as a priority to everything and justified faith in the cult of the Supreme Being as part of France's new Revolution. Robespierre is a controversial figure. In the historiography, historians are divided between those who are infatuated with him and those that are against him. I will attempt to show that Robespierre was an extremist, who sought to force on the people, a one system of belief in a Revolution that is based on a new modern religion that justified committing excesses against anyone suspected of not adhering to Robespierre's revolutionary view.

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