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Catholic and French Forever

Religious and National Identity in Modern France [Paperback]

by Oklahoma State University) Joseph F. Byrnes (professor Of Modern European History

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Pennsylvania State University Press

    • Published

      October 2005

    • Weight

      450g

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    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 through stories of priests, legislators, intellectuals, and pilgrims whose experiences manifest the problem of being both Catholic and French in modern France. 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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    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Pennsylvania State University Press

    • Published

      October 2005

    • Weight

      450g

    • Page Count

      304

    • Dimensions

      152 x 230 x 18 mm

    • ISBN

      9780271058634

    • ISBN-10

      0271058633

    • Eden Code

      4068040

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    • ISBN: 9780271058634

    • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press

    • Release Date: October 2005

    • Weight: 450g

    • Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 18 mm

    • Eden Code: 4068040


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