Religion and the politics of time
Subtitle: holidays in France from Louis XIV through Napoleon
By: Noah Shusterman.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813217253
Subjects: Calendar -- Political aspects -- France -- History; Church calendar -- France -- History; Holidays -- France -- History; Time -- Political aspects -- France -- History; Church and state -- France -- History; Political culture -- France -- History; France -- Politics and government -- 1643-1715; France -- Politics and government -- 1715-1774; France -- Politics and government -- 1774-1793; France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious holidays and temporal authority in old regime France; title: Politics of time and the politics of the times, 1642-1695; title: Centralization without the state : religious holidays in the eighteenth century; title: Which time for the future? : utility, anti-clericalism, and the calendar; title: Seeing like a church : religious time and Republican politics, 1789-VII; title: Reluctant missionaries : enforcement of the Republican calendar, VI-VII; title: Une loi de l'eglise et de l'etat : Napoleon and the central administration of religious life, 1800-1815; title: Appendix: Estimating the number of religious holidays in old regime France.