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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: The Enlightenment and modernity | |
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| The rationale of this book | |
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| The structure of this book | |
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| The myth of Enlightenment deism | |
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| The myth of the deist movement | |
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| The deism myth and modern historians | |
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| The myth and the historical record | |
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| The myth and the construction of modernity | |
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| Historians, religion and the historical record | |
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| The origins of Enlightenment anticlericalism | |
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| John Toland, Pierre Bayle and the problem of influence | |
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| Enlightenment from within or without Christianity? | |
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| The elite and the written record | |
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| Scaremongering, public opinion and the construction of the deism scare | |
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| The English deist movement: a case study in the construction of a myth | |
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| Post-Restoration context | |
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| Deists and Dissent confused | |
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| John Toland and Christianity not Mysterious | |
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| Early modern politico-religious propagandists and modern historians | |
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| Dissent and Englightenment | |
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| France: the revolt of democratic Christianity and the rise of public opinion | |
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| Bourbons, Huguenots and Jansenists | |
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| The Nouvelles ecclesiastiques and Bourbon miscalculation | |
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| The revolt of the 1750s | |
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| Popular victory against the Jesuits and the call for toleration | |
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| The final decline of the absolutist dream | |
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| Italy: Roman 'tyranny' and radical Catholic opposition | |
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| Jansenism and Catholic Englightenment | |
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| Anti-curial polemic and its context | |
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| Regalism and Jansenism | |
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| The temporal imperative: Roman theology and politics fused | |
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| Radical Jansenism 1770s-1790s | |
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| The 'public sphere' and the hidden life of ideas | |
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| The hidden life of ideas | |
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| The 'public sphere' and the top-down model of intellectual change | |
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| Anachronism and toleration | |
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| Indicative bibliography of Protestant thought on natural religion | |
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| Selected bibliography | |
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| Index | |