[PDF] France And The Cult Of The Sacred Heart eBook

Author : Raymond Jonas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 2000-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520221362

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In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacr -Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacr -Coeur on Montmartre is a key monument both to French Catholicism and to French national identity. Jonas masterfully reconstructs the history of the devotion responsible for the basilica, beginning with the apparition of the Sacred Heart to Marguerite Marie Alacoque in the seventeenth century, through the French Revolution and its aftermath, to the construction of the monumental church that has loomed over Paris since the end of the nineteenth century. Jonas focuses on key moments in the development of the cult: the founding apparition, its invocation during the plague of Marseilles, its adaptation as a royalist symbol during the French Revolution, and its elevation to a central position in Catholic devotional and political life in the crisis surrounding the Franco-Prussian War. He draws on a wealth of archival sources to produce a learned yet accessible narrative that encompasses a remarkable sweep of French politics, history, architecture, and art.

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Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : France
ISBN : 9781597346214

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The story of the church of the Sacred Heart in Paris, a monument to French Catholicism and national identity, is told in this text, focusing on key moments in its development and drawing on archival sources encompassing French politics and history.

Author : Raymond Jonas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520242998

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This is the moving and improbable story of Claire Ferchaud, a young French shepherdess who had visions of Jesus and gained national fame at the height of World War I as a modern-day Joan of Arc. The text illuminates broad issues of gender and ambition, belief and betrayal, mysticism and hysteria.

Author : Michael Burleigh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0061741450

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In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe, examining the complex and often lethal ways in which politics and religion have interacted and influenced each other over the last two centuries. From the French Revolution to the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, Earthly Powers is a uniquely powerful portrait of one of the great tensions of modern history—one that continues to be played out on the world stage today.

Author : Jean Croiset
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a religious text by Jean Croiset. It consists of spiritual meditations with adoration of Jesus in mind, and was influenced by St. Margaret Mary's holy visions.

Author : Phil Kilroy
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Church and social problems
ISBN : 9781909005068

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In the wake of the Counter Reformation and more intensely after the French Revolution, religious communities of women sprang up with astonishing rapidity in France. Today their form of life is coming to an end, at least in Europe, and it is the culmination of more than three hundred years of religious life, which provided companionship for women and enabled them contribute effective social activity in society. Such a phenomenon invites analysis, both of the origins and the motivations for such an upsurge of women's communities. The aim of this book is to bring together aspects of the private and public life of members of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 19th century France by using the extensive community and personal archives of the Society, as well as the collection of 14,000 letters of Madeleine Sophie Barat. By combining rigorous research and writing within the perspective of women's history, the lives and achievements, the successes and failures, of these French women are shifted out of hagiography into history. This book is unique. It breaks with the tradition of religious hagiography so prevalent when writing the history of religious women in the Catholic Church. It addresses the complexity of their personal/ community lives along with their public contribution to society.

Author : Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004384960

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Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank examines the complex meanings encoded in images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in eighteenth-century New Spain.

Author : David Allen Harvey
Publisher :
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875803449

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The occult sciences have attracted followers and fascinated observers since the middle ages. Beyond Enlightenment examines the social, political, and metaphysical doctrines of Martinism, a French occultist movement and offshoot of Freemasonry that flourished from the late eighteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth century. The French Revolution and the disorder that followed it convinced Martinists that modern society was on the wrong path. For guidance they looked back not to the corrupt Old Regime but rather to a lost golden age of mankind that existed only in their imagination. The Martinists were closely engaged in the political events of their times, and rightly or wrongly, they earned a reputation for secret intrigue and ubiquitous hidden influence. David Allen Harvey focuses on the Martinists themselves, recreating their own social and political views. He traces the birth of Martinism during the Enlightenment, its revival in the fin de siècle, and the late nineteenth-century formation of a distinctly Martinist project-the synarchy-aimed at the social and political renewal of France and the greater world. The Martinist doctrines formed a unique synthesis of Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment thought. Harvey maintains that Martinists were a peaceful, esoteric society that rejected both secular materialism and dogmatic Catholicism, seeking to reveal the hand of Providence in history, discover divinely inspired laws of social and political organizations, and enact the kingdom of heaven on earth. Seeking to explore and analyze the "irrational" side of the "Age of Reason," Beyond Enlightenment is a welcome addition to recent studies of esoteric movements. Historians of culture, religion, and politics in post-Revolutionary France, as well as historians of esotericism and alternative religions will be interested in this engaging and revealing study.

Author : Marie-France Boyer
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500019887

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The Virgin Mary is a dazzling icon, frequently escaping from the Church's strict constraints. She is a symbol of faith and hope, as well as one of beauty and celebration. This book explores the many faces of the Virgin Mary around the world and the rites and ceremonies associated with her.