{"product_id":"catholic-and-french-forever-joseph-f-byrnes-9780271058634","title":"Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is often said that there are two Frances--Catholic and secular. This notion dates back to the 1790s, when the revolutionary government sought to divorce Catholic Christianity from national life. While Napoleon formally reconciled his regime to France's millions of Catholics, church-state relations have remained a source of conflict and debate throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCatholic and French Forever\u003c\/i\u003e Joseph Byrnes recounts the fights and reconciliations between French citizens who found Catholicism integral to their traditional French identity and those who found the continued presence of Catholicism an obstacle to both happiness and progress. He does so through stories of priests, legislators, intellectuals, and pilgrims whose experiences manifest the problem of being both Catholic and French in modern France. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eByrnes finds that loyalties to the French nation and Catholicism became so incompatible in the revolutionary era that Catholic believers responded defensively across the nineteenth century, politicizing both religious pilgrimage and the languages of religious instruction. He shows that a d騁ente emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century with the respect given to priests in arms during World War I and to the work of religious art historian ﾉmile M稷e. This d騁ente has lasted, precariously and with interruption, up to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph F. Byrnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271058633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271058634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Joseph F. Byrnes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119500423423,"sku":"9780271058634","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e509928-de65-444b-be10-925190984736.jpg?v=1687409670","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/catholic-and-french-forever-joseph-f-byrnes-9780271058634","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}