Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France, vol. 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion
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This second volume of the Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France, begins with a section on the religion of the people. The clergy offered the liturgical services, sermons, evangelistic missions, and the offices sanctifying birth, marriage, and death; distinctions are made between what they intended and how their ministrations were popularly interpreted and incorporated into the social order. John McManners evaluates statistical soundings concerning the extent of religious practice and the degree of conviction involved. Further chapters deal with processions, pilgrimages, and popular practices and superstitions, with hermits and confraternities, with the impact of reading the Bible and other edifying literature in an age of increasing literacy. Finally comes a view of the twilight world of magic and sorcery. Throughout this section the comments of theologians and thinkers of the enlightenment are recorded, whether in agreement or contradiction.
The next section deals with the efficacy of the confessional and the role of the casuistry of the Church in attempting to mold sexual mores, business practices, and the world of the theatre.
In the next two sections, the role of religious issues in political affairs is detailed. An overview of the Jansenist quarrel and of the activities of the Jesuits brings in the story of the struggle between crown and parliament, while an extended portrayal of the life of the protestant and Jewish communities leads to the history of the debate on toleration, involving the Gallican Church in political interventions and controversy.
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- Presents a section on the religion of the people
- Evaluates statistical soundings concerning the extent of religious practice
- Explores the efficacy of the confessional and the role of the casuistry of the Church
Professor McManners has produced an outstanding history of religion and its social context in the hundred years before the French Revolution. As his many admirers will have come to expect, it contains broad and challenging arguments, illustrated by vivid detailed examples, and is always eminently readable.
—Huguenot Society Proceedings
- Title: Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France, Volume 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion
- Author: John McManners
- Series: Oxford History of the Christian Church
- Publishers: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press
- Print Publication Date: 1998
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 880
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Catholic Church › France--History--18th century; France › Church history--18th century; Christian life › France--History--18th century
- ISBNs: 9780198269632, 0198269633
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRCHSCTYGHTNTH02
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:19:56Z