Sacred dread : Raïssa Maritain, the allure of suffering, and the French Catholic revival (1905-1944)

Sacred dread : Raïssa Maritain, the allure of suffering, and the French Catholic revival (1905-1944) / Brenna Moore.

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 ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Brenna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Maritain, Raïssa.
Maritain, Raïssa
Catholic Church > France > History > 20th century.
Catholic Church > History > 20th century.
Catholic Church
1900-1999
Suffering > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Authors, French > 20th century > Biography.
Authors, French
Intellectual life
Suffering > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
France > Intellectual life > 20th century.
France
Biographies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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