Jazz age Catholicism : mystic modernism in postwar Paris, 1919-1933 / Stephen Schloesser.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Schloesser, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Catholics--France--Paris--History--20th century.
• Mysticism--Catholic Church--History--20th century.
• Mysticism--Catholic Church.
• History.
• Catholics.
• France--Paris.

Physical Description:

xi, 449 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2005]

Contents:

• Introduction: A Refusal to Quarantine the Sacred 3
• Prologue: Realism, Eternalism, Spiritual Naturalism 18
• Part 1 From Dualism to Dialectic
• 1 Cultural Manicheanism: Apocalyptic Melodrama 49
• 2 Trauma and Memorial: Repatriating the Repressed 83
• 3 Mystic Realism: A Faith That Faced the Facts 107
• Part 2 Jacques and Raissa Maritain: Cultural Hylomorphism
• 4 Ultramodernist Anti-modernism: Neoclassical Catholicism 141
• 5 Catholic Catholicity: Nothing Human Is Alien 173
• Part 3 Mystic Modernism: Catholic Visions of the Real
• 6 Georges Rouault: Masked Redemption 213
• 7 Georges Bernanos: Passionate Supernaturalism 245
• 8 Charles Tournemire: Mystical Dissonance 282.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-419) and index.

ISBN:

0802087183

OCLC:

57392412