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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813481403321

Autore

Schloesser Stephen

Titolo

Jazz age Catholicism : mystic modernism in postwar Paris, 1919-1933 / / Stephen Schloesser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-281-99645-9

9786611996451

1-4426-7639-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (462 p.)

Collana

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Disciplina

282/.443609041

Soggetti

Catholics - France - Paris - History - 20th century

Mysticism - Catholic Church - History - 20th century

History

Electronic books.

Paris

France Paris

France

Paris (France) Histoire religieuse 20e siecle

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Refusal to Quarantine the Sacred -- Prologue: Realism, Eternalism, Spiritual Naturalism -- Part One: From Dualism to Dialectic -- 1. Cultural Manicheanism: Apocalyptic Melodrama -- 2. Trauma and Memorial: Repatriating the Repressed -- 3. Mystic Realism: A Faith That Faced the Facts -- Part Two: Jacques and Raissa Maritain: Cultural Hylomorphism -- 4. Ultramodernist Anti-modernism: Neoclassical Catholicism -- 5. Catholic Catholicity: Nothing Human Is Alien -- Part Three: Mystic Modernism: Catholic Visions of the Real -- 6. Georges Rouault: Masked Redemption -- 7. Georges Bernanos: Passionate Supernaturalism -- 8. Charles Tournemire: Mystical Dissonance -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

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.