HIST 276: France Since 1871
Lecture 05 - The Waning of Religious Authority. Religion in France after the Revolution can be understood in terms of two forms of de-Christianization. The first of these is political, and takes place in the de jure separation of church and state. The second is a decline in religious practice among individual citizens. While the history of the former change is well documented, the latter is a more ambiguous phenomenon. Despite the statistical decline in religious participation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Catholicism in particular continues to play a significant role in the cultural imagination, or imaginaire, of many French people. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 05 - The Waning of Religious Authority |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Catholicism and the Rest: Religious Distribution in France |
| [00:04:41] | 2. The Decline of "The Awful Thing": Anti-Clericalism and De-Christianization |
| [00:21:34] | 3. Regional Differences in Religiosity |
| [00:30:04] | 4. The Role of Women: Finding Independence through the Catholic Church |
| [00:32:45] | 5. Disentangling Church and State: Regional Devotion and Developments |
| References |
| Lecture 5 - The Waning of Religious Authority Instructor: Professor John Merriman. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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