The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970: Volume 241

by Michael Gauvreau

Book Overview

The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution challenges a versionof history central to modern Quebec's understanding of itself: that theQuiet Revolution began in the 1960s as a secular vision of state andsociety which rapidly displaced an obsolete, clericalized Catholicism.Michael Gauvreau argues that organizations such as Catholic youthmovements played a central role in formulating the Personalist Catholicideology that underlay the Quiet Revolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773528741
• ISBN13: 9780773528741
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.