The Catholic origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970

"Michel Gauvreau shows that between the 1930s and the 1960s the Catholic Church in Quebec espoused a particularly radical understanding of modernity, especially with regard to youth, gender identities, marriage, and family. Catholicism emerges as an institution increasingly dominated by the pri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gauvreau, Michael, 1956- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press c2005.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion ; 41.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31091507*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Recasting Catholicism's place in modern Quebec
  • "The presence of heroism in our lives": youth, catholicism, and the cultural origins of the Quiet Revolution, 1931-1945
  • "Spiritual athletes": elites, masses, and the betrayal of Catholicism, 1945-1958
  • "A new world is born, and with it a new family": Marriage, sexuality, nuclearity, and the reconstruction of the French-Canadian family, 1931-1955
  • "The defeat of the father": the disaggregation and privatization of the French-Canadian family, 1955-1970
  • "The epic of contemporary feminism has unfolded in the church": sexuality, birth control, and personalist feminism, 1931-1971
  • The final concordat: Catholicism and education reform in Quebec, 1960-1964
  • "An old, ill-fitting garment": Fernand Dumont, Quebec's second revolution, and the drama of de-Christianization, 1964-1971.