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Ahearne, Jeremy (2011) Questions of religion and cultural policy in France. International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol.17 (No.2). pp. 153-169. doi:10.1080/10286632.2010.528837 ISSN 1028-6632.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2010.528837
Abstract
This article explores how questions of religion have impinged on or informed various dimensions of culture-shaping policy in France. Firstly, it considers how religious references have been orchestrated in high-level attempts to frame secular national identities, but also how such processes have assumed quasi-religious forms and functions. Secondly, it analyses the changing place of religion in French educational curricula, and recent contested endeavours to introduce it as a cultural ‘fact’ into those curricula. Thirdly, the article examines influential framings of art policies in their relation to religion. It considers the pivotal function of religious fragments and debris in Malraux’s vision of the imaginary museum, and the use by Bourdieu of sustained religious metaphors to describe the sacralizing dynamics of secular artworlds. Finally the article examines in a long-term perspective the implicit and explicit cultural policies of religious bodies themselves in their attempts to act upon prevailing cultures.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization D History General and Old World > DC France |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | France -- Cultural policy, Religion and culture -- France | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Cultural Policy | ||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||
ISSN: | 1028-6632 | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.17 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 153-169 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/10286632.2010.528837 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 December 2015 |
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