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Wardhaugh, Jessica (2009) Sacred unions : religion and reconciliation in French society, 1919-1945. French Politics, Culture & Society, Vol.27 (No.3). pp. 116-128. doi:10.3167/fpcs.2009.270313 ISSN 1537-6370.
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Abstract
The challenge of reconciling religious faith with political or cultural commitment provides the central focus—and interest—of these two recent books on interwar and Occupied France. Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris 1919-1933 (hereafter JAC) is an ambitious interdisciplinary study of the renouveau catholique by the Jesuit scholar Stephen Schloesser. His contention is that the neo-Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain and his close
associates reconciled Catholicism with the avant-garde by uniting mysticism with modern art, music, and literature. Geoffrey Adams, a specialist in the history of French Protestantism, likewise breaks new ground with Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in de Gaulle’s Free France, 1940-1944 (hereafter PE). Interweaving short prosopographical studies with a broader narrative of Resistance and Liberation, Adams suggests that France’s religious families were reconciled through the ecumenical composition of de Gaulle’s supporters, which included Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and also Muslims. Although neither book departs significantly from the principal themes in previous research, both present valuable reflections on the relationship between religion and French society in the first half of the twentieth century.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | French Politics, Culture & Society | ||||
Publisher: | Berghahn Books Inc. | ||||
ISSN: | 1537-6370 | ||||
Official Date: | 2009 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.27 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 116-128 | ||||
DOI: | 10.3167/fpcs.2009.270313 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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