This article examines the origins and implications of the Irish Toleration Act of 1719. It makes three related arguments. First, it highlights what Britons during the early 18th century thought religious toleration was meant to achieve and to whom and under what circumstances religious toleration might be extended. Second, it demonstrates the steady desacralisation of post-revolutionary British politics, even in a country like Ireland so obviously riven along confessional lines. Finally, it contends that both the arguments for and against the Irish Toleration Act illustrate that the established churches in the composite post-revolutionary British state were functionally civil religions.

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“国家辉格党，但这种偏执的教会托利党人”：1719 年爱尔兰宽容法案和宗教政治*

本文考察了 1719 年爱尔兰宽容法案的起源和影响。它提出了三个相关的论点。首先，它强调了 18 世纪早期英国人认为宗教宽容的目的是什么，宗教宽容可以扩展到谁以及在什么情况下可以扩展。其次，它展示了革命后英国政治的持续去宗教化，即使是在像爱尔兰这样明显分裂成宗教信仰的国家也是如此。最后，它争辩说，支持和反对爱尔兰宽容法案的论点都表明，在革命后的复合英国国家中，已建立的教会在功能上是公民宗教。