RT Review
T1 [Rezension von: Shortall, Sarah, 1985-, Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics]
JF A journal of church and state
VO 65
IS 2
SP 277
OP 279
A1 Bourg, Julian 1969-
A2 Shortall, Sarah 1985-
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1852453877
AB In recent decades, France has figured prominently in international debates on secularism (laïcité) and religion, for instance with respect to its ban on religious iconography in public schools. Following the legal separation of church and state in 1905, this once predominantly Catholic country became increasingly irreligious over the course of the twentieth century. At present, French Republicanism itself is a strident secular belief that tends to accuse religious believers of divisive “communitarian,” subnational commitments. Such ongoing anxieties about traditional religion are rooted in the fact that Catholicism has long been a dominant political and cultural force ...
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jcs/csad011