Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970

Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970
ISBN-10
0773528741
ISBN-13
9780773528741
Category
History
Pages
532
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Author
Michael Gauvreau

Description

The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution challenges a versionof history central to modern Quebec's understanding of itself: that theQuiet Revolution began in the 1960s as a secular vision of state andsociety which rapidly displaced an obsolete, clericalized Catholicism.Michael Gauvreau argues that organizations such as Catholic youthmovements played a central role in formulating the Personalist Catholicideology that underlay the Quiet Revolution and that ordinaryQuebecers experienced the Quiet Revolution primarily through a seriesof transformations in the expression of their Catholic identity. In sodoing Gauvreau offers a new understanding of Catholicism's place intwentieth-century Quebec.

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