Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933

by Stephen Schloesser

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802087183
• ISBN13: 9780802087188
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher