Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France

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Cambridge University Press, 02/05/2002 - 348 páginas
Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France brings together the social, religious and intellectual history of the Grand Siecle and focuses on the involvement of the Church in a variety of cultural domains, including literature, art, censorship and ideas. It explores the limits as well as the extent of the Church's influence, especially in its attempt to impose orthodoxy in all areas and on all sections of society. Given that orthodoxy determines the believer's inclusion or exclusion from the Church, thus implying the notion of boundaries in a context of constraint, the study is conceived according to a number of spaces. The notion of space is sometimes interpreted literally, e.g. Port-Royal, the school and the church building, and sometimes metaphorically, e.g. orthodoxy itself, science and theology. The book also deals with religious attitudes to libertinage, atheism and deism, and with aspects of French Protestantism.
 

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The spaces of belief
11
The spaces of representation
46
The spaces of education
78
The spaces of dissension
102
The space of ideas
137
The spaces of discussion
173
The spaces of hostility belief
191
The spaces of hostility unbelief
228
The space of the word
264
Conclusion
299
Bibliography
318
Index
328
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