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France Since 1871

Yale,, Fall 2007 , Prof. John Merriman

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Introduction - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy - Centralized State and Republic - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity - The Waning of Religious Authority - Workshop and Factory - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus - Cafs and the Culture of Drink - Paris and the Belle poque - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith) - The Origins of World War I - Trench Warfare - The Home Front - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes) - The Popular Front - The Dark Years: Vichy France - Resistance - Battles For and Against Americanization - Vietnam and Algeria - Charles De Gaulle - May 1968 - Immigration

Includes

Lecture 5: The Waning of Religious Authority

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Lecture Details

France Since 1871 (HIST 276)

Religion in France after the Revolution can be understood in terms of two forms of de-Christianization. The first of these is political, and takes place in the de jure separation of church and state. The second is a decline in religious practice among individual citizens. While the history of the former change is well documented, the latter is a more ambiguous phenomenon. Despite the statistical decline in religious participation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Catholicism in particular continues to play a significant role in the cultural imagination, or imaginaire, of many French people.

0000 - Chapter 1. Catholicism and the Rest Religious Distribution in France
0441 - Chapter 2. The Decline of The Awful Thing Anti-Clericalism and De-Christianization
2134 - Chapter 3. Regional Differences in Religiosity
3004 - Chapter 4. The Role of Women Finding Independence through the Catholic Church
3245 - Chapter 5. Disentangling Church and State Regional Devotion and Developments

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This course was recorded in Fall 2007.

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Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.

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Great course. Thank you very much.

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