{"product_id":"sacred-dread-brenna-moore-9780268035297","title":"Sacred Dread: Ra?sa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival (1905-1944)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn early twentieth-century France, a vast network of artists, writers, and religious seekers were drawn to Roman Catholicism's elaborate panoply of symbols centered on suffering. A preoccupation with affliction dominated the movement now known as the French Catholic revival, or the \u003ci\u003erenouveau catholique\u003c\/i\u003e--considered a watershed in the history of the modern Catholic Church and the \"golden age\" of French Catholicism. In \u003ci\u003eSacred Dread\u003c\/i\u003e, Brenna Moore examines the life and writings of Ra?sa Maritain (1883-1960), one of the few women to contribute to this intellectual movement. Moore explores the reasons why Maritain, a nonpracticing Jew, was attracted to this suffering-centered theological imagination and how she and other advocates transformed it in the wake of the Holocaust. \u003ci\u003eSacred Dread\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers a new understanding of a radical Catholic piety that was embraced by a wide range of pre-war intellectuals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy combining late-modern French intellectual and cultural history, Catholic theology, biography, and an analysis of Maritain's published and unpublished writings, Moore also identifies two major factors in this Catholic revival--gender and Judaism--that have not received adequate attention. Discourses of femininity and Judaism were central to the French Catholic articulation and idealization of suffering. Moore argues that Maritain, as a Jewish convert and one of the few women in this intellectual community, embodied symbolic associations of suffering, holiness, women, and Jews; indeed, for her husband, godfather, confessors, friends, and godchildren, Ra?sa Maritain was herself the articulation of this abject ideal. Caught as she was in a web of meaning, Ra?sa Maritain was an intellectual whose legacy deepens but also subverts the centrality of femininity and Judaism in French Catholic elaborations of suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brenna Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268035296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268035297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Brenna Moore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995507163391,"sku":"9780268035297","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65ec160b-01fc-47f6-9c1f-1fd5a62e0e69.jpg?v=1683336210","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacred-dread-brenna-moore-9780268035297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}