France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart

France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart

Author: Raymond Jonas

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-09-20

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0520221362

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In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacr -Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacr -Coeur on Montmartre is a key monument both to French Catholicism and to French national identity. Jonas masterfully reconstructs the history of the devotion responsible for the basilica, beginning with the apparition of the Sacred Heart to Marguerite Marie Alacoque in the seventeenth century, through the French Revolution and its aftermath, to the construction of the monumental church that has loomed over Paris since the end of the nineteenth century. Jonas focuses on key moments in the development of the cult: the founding apparition, its invocation during the plague of Marseilles, its adaptation as a royalist symbol during the French Revolution, and its elevation to a central position in Catholic devotional and political life in the crisis surrounding the Franco-Prussian War. He draws on a wealth of archival sources to produce a learned yet accessible narrative that encompasses a remarkable sweep of French politics, history, architecture, and art.


France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart

France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart

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Published: 2000

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781597346214

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The story of the church of the Sacred Heart in Paris, a monument to French Catholicism and national identity, is told in this text, focusing on key moments in its development and drawing on archival sources encompassing French politics and history.


The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War

The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War

Author: Raymond Jonas

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2005-03-07

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0520242998

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This is the moving and improbable story of Claire Ferchaud, a young French shepherdess who had visions of Jesus and gained national fame at the height of World War I as a modern-day Joan of Arc. The text illuminates broad issues of gender and ambition, belief and betrayal, mysticism and hysteria.


Earthly Powers

Earthly Powers

Author: Michael Burleigh

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 941

ISBN-13: 0061741450

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In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe, examining the complex and often lethal ways in which politics and religion have interacted and influenced each other over the last two centuries. From the French Revolution to the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, Earthly Powers is a uniquely powerful portrait of one of the great tensions of modern history—one that continues to be played out on the world stage today.


Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?

Holy Organ or Unholy Idol?

Author: Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9004384960

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Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? focuses on the significance of the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its accompanying imagery in eighteenth-century New Spain. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank considers paintings, prints, devotional texts, and archival sources within the Mexican context alongside issues and debates occurring in Europe to situate the New Spanish cult within local and global developments. She examines the iconography of these religious images and frames them within broader socio-political and religious discourses related to the Eucharist, the sun, the Jesuits, scientific and anatomical ideas, and mysticism. Images of the Heart helped to champion the cult’s validity as it was attacked by religious reformers.


Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France

Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France

Author: Venita Datta

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-04-11

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1139498207

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In Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France Venita Datta examines representations of fictional and real heroes in the boulevard theater and mass press during the fin de siècle (1880–1914), illuminating the role of gender in the construction of national identity during this formative period of French history. The popularity of the heroic cult at this time was in part the result of defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, as well as a reaction to changing gender roles and collective guilt about the egoism and selfishness of modern consumer culture. The author analyzes representations of historical figures in the theater, focusing on Cyrano de Bergerac, Napoleon and Joan of Arc, and examines the press coverage of heroes and anti-heroes in the Bazar de la Charité fire of 1897 and the Ullmo spy case of 1907.


Christian Homes

Christian Homes

Author: Tine Van Osselaer

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9462700184

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Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the ‘angel in the house’. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity during the period and the frequent blurring of boundaries between the Christian home and modern society, the case studies included in this volume call for a more nuanced understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home.


The Cult of the Virgin

The Cult of the Virgin

Author: Marie-France Boyer

Publisher:

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9780500019887

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The Virgin Mary is a dazzling icon, frequently escaping from the Church's strict constraints. She is a symbol of faith and hope, as well as one of beauty and celebration. This book explores the many faces of the Virgin Mary around the world and the rites and ceremonies associated with her.


The Folly of the Cross

The Folly of the Cross

Author: Richard Viladesau

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0190876026

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The Folly of the Cross is the fourth book in Richard Viladesau's series examining the aesthetics and theology of the cross through Christian history. Previous volumes have brought the story up through the Baroque era. This new book examines the reception of the message of the cross from the European Enlightenment to the turn of the twentieth century. The opening chapters set the stage in the transition from the Baroque to the Classical eras, describing the changing intellectual and cultural paradigms of the time. Viladesau examines the theology of the cross in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the aesthetic mediation of the cross in music and the visual arts. He shows how in the post-Enlightenment era the aesthetic treatment of the cross widely replaced the dogmatic treatment, and how this thought was translated into popular spirituality, piety, and devotion. The Folly of the Cross shows how classical theology responded to the critiques of modern science, history, Biblical scholarship, and philosophy, and how both classical and modern theology served as the occasions for new forms of representation of Christ's passion in the arts and music.