Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France"This is a carefully crafted piece of social history that broadly revises widely held preconceptions about ideological currents in the French Revolution. The issues it raises go beyond those that might appeal only to specialists in communal action and religion; historical sociologists and sociologists of culture will also find this to be an important and provocative study."--American Journal of Sociology |
Contents
Religious and Political Landscapes of the Yonne | 31 |
The Emergence of Lay Cults | 76 |
The Rhetoric | 122 |
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AD Yonne Arrêté assemblies authorities Auxerre Auxerrois Avallon bell bishop brumaire BSSY canton Catholic Reformation Catholic villagers Catholicism Chablis church citizens clergy clerical commissaire de l'Yonne commune Constitution Coulanges-la-Vineuse culte laïcal cultural curé dechristianization département de l'Yonne Dépôt diocese diocese of Auxerre district d'Auxerre example festivals floréal France French frimaire fructidor germinal illegal Irancy Jansenist January Joigny l'administration départementale l'agent national l'église l'Yonne au ministre laity laws lay cults lay ministers lay-led Lettre du commissaire liberty mass messidor municipal municipalité nivôse nivôse an VIII oath officials Old Regime Paris parish parishioners percent Pétition des habitants petitions pluviôse police political popular prairial préfet priests Puisaye regions regions of France religion religious activism religious activists religious practice religious riots représentant en mission republican revival Revolution revolutionary cults ritual sacred Saint-Florentin saints Senonais Sens siècle spiritual Theophilanthropists thermidor tion Tonnerre towns traditional vendémiaire ventôse Vermenton Viart women worship