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1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) |
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Introduction : Vicarious Suffering, Its Interpretive Limits, and Raïssa Maritain's Work -- That "Strange Thing, So Unknown to Us - Catholicism" : Steps to Conversion (1900-1906) -- "She Who Weeps" : Feminized Suffering in the Thought of Léon Bloy and the Maritains (1906-35) -- Building a New Tribe in the Gathering Storm : Raïssa Maritian the Complexity of Interwar Philo-Semitism (1923-39) -- Poetry "in the Storm of Life" : Art, Mysticism, and Politics at Meudon (1931-39) -- Holy Suffering, Memory, and the Irredeemable Present : Raïssa Maritain in Exile (1940-44) -- Conclusion : Raïssa Maritain's Posthumous Presence and the Allure of Suffering Reconsidered |
| Summary |
In 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 renouveau catholique - a movement considered a watershed in the history of the modern Catholic Church and the "golden age" of French Catholicism. In this book, the author examines the life and writings of Raïssa Maritain (1883-1960), one of the few women to contribute to this intellectual movement. The author 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. This book offers readers a new understanding of a radical Catholic piety that was embraced by a wide range of pre-war intellectuals |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Maritain, Raïssa.
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Maritain, Raïssa fast |
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Catholic Church -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.
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Catholic Church fast |
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Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, French
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Intellectual life
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Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
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France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442
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France
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Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780268086893 |
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0268086893 |
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