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Religion and the politics of time : holidays in France from Louis XIV through Napoleon / Noah Shusterman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813218137
  • 0813218136
Other title:
  • Religion & the politics of time [Spine title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and the politics of time.DDC classification:
  • 944/.033 22
LOC classification:
  • CE61.F8 S56 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 8,2
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Contents:
Religious holidays and temporal authority in old regime France -- Politics of time and the politics of the times, 1642-1695 -- Centralization without the state : religious holidays in the eighteenth century -- Which time for the future? Utility, anti-clericalism, and the calendar -- Seeing like a church : religious time and Republican politics, 1789-VI -- Reluctant missionaries : enforcement of the Republican calendar, VI-VII -- Une loi de l'eglise et de l'etat : Napoleon and the central administration of religious life, 1800-1815.
Summary: A study of the changes in religious holidays in Old Regime and Revolutionary France. It highlights the importance of cultural and religious history in the transformations of French society that took place from the mid-seventeenth through the early nineteenth century and tells a story of the development of a French national calendar of holidays.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)489911

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religious holidays and temporal authority in old regime France -- Politics of time and the politics of the times, 1642-1695 -- Centralization without the state : religious holidays in the eighteenth century -- Which time for the future? Utility, anti-clericalism, and the calendar -- Seeing like a church : religious time and Republican politics, 1789-VI -- Reluctant missionaries : enforcement of the Republican calendar, VI-VII -- Une loi de l'eglise et de l'etat : Napoleon and the central administration of religious life, 1800-1815.

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English.

A study of the changes in religious holidays in Old Regime and Revolutionary France. It highlights the importance of cultural and religious history in the transformations of French society that took place from the mid-seventeenth through the early nineteenth century and tells a story of the development of a French national calendar of holidays.