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The Return of Religion in France: From Democratisation to Postmetaphysics
Enda McCaffrey
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Description for The Return of Religion in France: From Democratisation to Postmetaphysics
Hardcover. The author examines how social change and philosophical crisis in the 1980s created the conditions for the return of religion to contemporary French intellectual life. It highlights a critical conjuncture in recent French history when religion was revitalized in French secularism as an expression of individual identity. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HRAB; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
The author examines how social change and philosophical crisis in the 1980s created the conditions for the return of religion to contemporary French intellectual life. It highlights a critical conjuncture in recent French history when religion was revitalized in French secularism as an expression of individual identity.
The author examines how social change and philosophical crisis in the 1980s created the conditions for the return of religion to contemporary French intellectual life. It highlights a critical conjuncture in recent French history when religion was revitalized in French secularism as an expression of individual identity.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230205192
SKU
V9780230205192
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99-15
About Enda McCaffrey
ENDA MCCAFFREY is Reader in French at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of a number of books including The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France (2005). He has been working in French cultural studies for a number of years, co-edited a collection of essays called French Cultural Debates (2001) and has also published on French ... Read more
Reviews for The Return of Religion in France: From Democratisation to Postmetaphysics
'This rich and impressively broad-ranging book does live up to its interdisciplinary billing, and succeeds in making its powerful case: it is a myth that secular modernity represents the end of religion, and a misconception that it excludes religious belief.' - Christopher Watkin, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, French Studies