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Full Title | Civic Catechisms and Reason in the French Revolution |
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Author(s) | Velicu, Adrian, Dr |
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ISBN | 9781409481096, 9780754669982 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Format | PDF and EPUB |
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Full Title | Civic Catechisms and Reason in the French Revolution |
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Author(s) | Velicu, Adrian, Dr |
Edition | |
ISBN | 9781409481096, 9780754669982 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Format | PDF and EPUB |
At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime. It is an exploration of the facts and implications of this tension that forms the basis of this study, which reconstructs the intellectual world of the Revolution.
The new radical regime attacked the old institutionalized forms of Catholic worship and instruction, yet retained the catechetical outlook with its dogmatic mindset as an important feature of political education. Catechisms not only conveyed information in an accessible manner, they also revealed the intellectual tendencies of those who favoured the genre. Civic catechisms were meant to play an important part of revolutionary instruction
Original price was: $149.95.$24.99Current price is: $24.99.
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Full Title | Civic Catechisms and Reason in the French Revolution |
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Author(s) | Velicu, Adrian, Dr |
Edition | |
ISBN | 9780754698296, 9780754669982 |
Publisher | Ashgate |
Format | PDF and EPUB |
At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime. It is an exploration of the facts and implications of this tension that forms the basis of this study, which reconstructs the intellectual world of the Revolution.
The new radical regime attacked the old institutionalized forms of Catholic worship and instruction, yet retained the catechetical outlook with its dogmatic mindset as an important feature of political education. Catechisms not only conveyed information in an accessible manner, they also revealed the intellectual tendencies of those who favoured the genre. Civic catechisms were meant to play an important part of revolutionary instruction