Jazz Age Catholicism
Subtitle: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: June 14, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780802087188
Subjects: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; France; Christianity - Catholicism; Religion - Church History; Religion; History; Christianity - Catholic; Christianity - History - General; Religion / Church History; Catholics; Europe - France; 20th century; Catholic Church; Mysticism; Paris
First sentence: 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.