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- Title
Republican Socialism and Gendered Portrayals of Catholic Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century France.
- Authors
Miller, Randolph
- Abstract
The popularity of Ultramontanism and the political energy provided by Sacred Heart piety gave French Catholicism of the post-Commune era a militant posture, one that republican socialists saw as antagonistic to their political objectives. This article shows that socialists responded by emasculating their Catholic opponents. Drawing on the materialist tradition that emerged from the Enlightenment and Revolution, and highlighting the resignation and emotive nature of radical Catholic piety, republican socialists maintained that religious belief was evidence of inadequate virility. Speaking to the anxieties of the period, which included concerns about racial degeneration and the adequacy of France on the world stage, this gendering of epistemological convictions allowed socialists to argue for the exclusion of religion and the religious male from French politics.
- Subjects
FRANCE; ULTRAMONTANISM; CATHOLIC Church; ANTAGONISM (Ecology); MATERIALISM; THEORY of knowledge; FRENCH politics &; government
- Publication
Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, 2020, Vol 46, Issue 3, p78
- ISSN
0315-7997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/hrrh.2020.460305