The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) was a form of theocratic deism established by Maximilien Robespierre during the French...
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during the French Revolution. After holding sway for barely a year, in 1794 it was officially replaced by the rival deistic Cult of the Supreme Being, promoted...
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signs of worship the institution of revolutionary and civic cults, including the Cult of Reason and subsequently the Cult of the Supreme Being (spring...
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recognize the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul", and to organize celebrations of the new cult. May 8: The chemist Antoine Lavoisier...
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Religion in France (redirect from History of Christianity in France)
Shandi (2013). Religions of Revolution: The Merging of Religious and Political in the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme being in France 1793–1794...
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Secular religion (section Cult of personality)
Jacobinism, Juche, Maoism, Religion of Humanity, the cults of personality, the Cult of Reason and Cult of the Supreme Being. The term secular religion is often...
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Maximilien Robespierre (redirect from The Incorruptible)
deist beliefs. Climaxing at the Champ de Mars, he delivered speeches emphasizing his concept of a Supreme Being devoid of religious figures like Christ...
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addressing the relationship between religion, morality, and the republican principles; and to establish the Cult of the Supreme Being in place of the Cult of Reason...
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the Year III. These included Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being, the Cult of Reason and, during the later post-Terror period, the Decadary Cult and...
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Deism (redirect from Deism in the United States)
observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe...
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Pierre-Joseph Cambon (category Members of the Chamber of Representatives (France))
of the general's great popularity. Cambon incurred the hatred of the theist Maximilien Robespierre (see Cult of the Supreme Being) by proposing the suppression...
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Aum Shinrikyo (redirect from Cult of the Supreme Truth)
'religion of Aum Supreme Truth'), is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo...
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dissolution of the Catholic Church and revolutionary cults like the Cult of the Supreme Being. Olwen Hufton argues some wanted to protect the Church from...
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archived from the original on 9 December 2021, retrieved 9 December 2021 Religion: The Cult of the Supreme Being, 8 June 1794, archived from the original on...
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French First Republic (redirect from The First French Republic)
characterised by the downfall and abolition of the French monarchy, the establishment of the National Convention and the Reign of Terror, the Thermidorian...
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during the Reign of Terror, announced his own establishment of a new, deistic religion for the Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. According to the conservative...
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Anti-clericalism (redirect from Anti-clericalism in the United States)
Festivals of Liberty, Reason and the Supreme Being were scheduled. New forms of moral religion emerged, including the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being and...
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Deus (category Names of God)
and occasionally followers of pantheism, may sometimes refer to God as "Deus" or "the Deus" to make clear that the entity being discussed is not a theistic...
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Tuileries Garden (category Venues of the 1900 Summer Olympics)
Ceremony of the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Garden (Tuileries), 1794 After the death of Louis XIV, the five-year-old Louis XV became owner of the...
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A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the result of an effort which is made to create an idealized and heroic image of a glorious leader...
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Polytheism (category Philosophy of religion)
Kök-Tengri as the supreme being evolved as a dynastical legitimation. It is at least agreed that Tengrism formed from the diverse folk religions of the local...
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Irreligion in France (redirect from History of irreligion in France)
of Christian and theistic cultural influences by force, was opposed to Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being, which was considered a deistic cult which...
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Cosmism Cult of Reason Cult of the Supreme Being Deism Christian Deism Gottgläubig Spinozism Ethical movement Freethought North Texas Church of Freethought...
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including the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being and the atheistic Cult of Reason. The drownings at Nantes targeted many Catholic priests and nuns. The first...
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Gottgläubig (category Conceptions of God)
themselves Gottgläubige. Of the general SS membership, 16% had left their respective churches by the end of 1937. Cult of the Supreme Being Esotericism in Germany...
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the Cult of Reason, the Cult of the Supreme Being, the Decadary Cult, and Theophilanthropy. Christian holidays were officially abolished in favor of revolutionary...
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Atheism (redirect from The rationality of atheism)
Thermidorian Reaction. The radical Jacobins seized power in 1793. The Jacobins were deists and introduced the Cult of the Supreme Being as a new French state...
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Notre-Dame de Paris (redirect from Abbey of the Notre Dame des Prés)
then to the Cult of the Supreme Being in 1794. During this time, many of the treasures of the cathedral were either destroyed or plundered. The twenty-eight...
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Jacobins (redirect from Society of the Friends of the Constitution)
Jacobins rejected both the church and atheism. They set up new religious cults, the Cult of Reason and later Cult of the Supreme Being, to replace Catholicism...
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amendment to the Constitution of the United States, forming an early and influential secular government. 1794: the Cult of the Supreme Being in France is...
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