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Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933
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Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933 Hardback - 2005 - 2nd Edition

by Stephen Schloesser

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Following the Great War's devastation, innovative movements in France offered competing visions of a revitalized national body and a new world order. One of these was the postwar Catholic revival or renouveau catholique. Since the church had historically been the dominant religious force in France, its turn of the century separation from the state was especially bitter. For many Catholics, the 1914-18 sacrifices made on the Republic's behalf necessitated its postwar 're-Christianization.' However, in their attempt to reconcile Catholicism with culture, revivalists needed to abandon old oppositions and adapt religion's rigging to the prevailing winds of modernity.

Stephen Schloesser's Jazz Age Catholicism shows how a postwar generation of Catholics refashioned traditional notions of sacramentalism in modern language and imagery. Jacques Maritain's philosophy, Georges Rouault's visual art, Georges Bernanos's fiction, and Charles Tournemire's music all reclothed ancient tropes in new fashions. By the late 1920s, the renouveau catholique had successfully positioned Catholic intellectual and cultural discourse at the very centre of elite French life. Its synthesis of Catholicism and culture would define the religiosity of many throughout Western Europe and the Americas into the 1960s.

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Between the years 1894 and 1914 in France, `modernity' - understood in the political realm as laicism and in the cultural-intellectual realm as the Sorbonne's positivism/historicism - grew to be imagined as the dualistic opposite of Catholicism.

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  • Title Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933
  • Author Stephen Schloesser
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 440
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press
  • Publication date June 14, 2005
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780802087188 / 0802087183
  • Weight 1.77 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.36 x 1.58 in (22.91 x 16.15 x 4.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Religion - Church History
  • Library of Congress subjects Catholics - France - Paris - History - 20th, Mysticism - Catholic Church - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004532195
  • Dewey Decimal Code 282.443

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2006, Page 35

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