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15%OFFJoseph F. Byrnes - Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France - 9780271027043 - V9780271027043
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Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France

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Description for Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 586.

It is often said that there are two Frances—Catholic and secular. This notion dates back to the 1790s, when the revolutionary government sought to divorce Catholic Christianity from national life. While Napoleon formally reconciled his regime to France’s millions of Catholics, church-state relations have remained a source of conflict and debate throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In Catholic and French Forever Joseph Byrnes recounts the fights and reconciliations between French citizens who found Catholicism integral to their traditional French identity and those who found the continued presence of Catholicism an obstacle to both happiness and progress. He does so ... Read more

Byrnes finds that loyalties to the French nation and Catholicism became so incompatible in the revolutionary era that Catholic believers responded defensively across the nineteenth century, politicizing both religious pilgrimage and the languages of religious instruction. He shows that a détente emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century with the respect given to priests in arms during World War I and to the work of religious art historian Émile Mâle. This détente has lasted, precariously and with interruption, up to the present day.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271027043
SKU
V9780271027043
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About Joseph F. Byrnes
Joseph F. Byrnes is Professor of Modern European History at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of The Virgin of Chartres: An Intellectual and Psychological History of the Work of Henry Adams (1981) and The Psychology of Religion (1984), and he is a co-author of The Religious World: Communities of Faith (1993).

Reviews for Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France
“This profitable book tackles an important topic from a rather novel perspective. Since the French Revolution it has been as easy to argue that being French means being Catholic as to argue that being Catholic is inimical or irrelevant to French identity. Byrnes presents the conflict of these points of view, its origins in rationalist Enlightenment and militant revolutionary deism, ... Read more

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