Ulrich L. Lehner is William K. Warren Professor of Theology at University of Notre Dame, Indiana. A member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, he has received awards and fellowships from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Notre Dame Institute of Advanced Study, the Earhart Foundation, the German Humboldt Foundation and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. He is the award-winning author of several scholarly works on early modern and modern history of religion.
* Introduction: Progress and Catholicism--Oil and Water?
* Chapter 1: Catholic Enlighteners Around the Globe
* Chapter 2: The Catholic Learning Curve: Toleration and Tolerance
* Chapter 3: Feminism, Freedom, Faith: Catholic Women and the
Enlightenment
* Chapter 4: Catholic Enlightenment in the Americas, China, and India
* Chapter 5: Devils, Demons, and the Divine in the Catholic
Enlightenment
* Chapter 6: Saints and Sinners
* Chapter 7: Slaves, Servants, and Savages: Slavery in Catholic
Countries
* Conclusion: The Death of Catholic Enlightenment and the Beginning of
a Papal Catholicism
* Afterword
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index