Explain the romantics' reasons for the departure from religious views that held sway during the Enlightenment.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. John Wesley and emotional experience
2. Chateaubriand and the link between passion and faith
3. The Roman Catholic revival as reaction to anticlericalism
4. The romantics' connection between nature and the divine
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