The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970, Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9780773528741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 522 str.

Michael Gauvreau

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The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution challenges a version of history central to modern Quebec's understanding of itself: that the Quiet Revolution began in the 1960s as a secular vision of state and society which rapidly displaced an obsolete, clericalized Catholicism. Michael Gauvreau argues that organizations such as Catholic youth movements played a central role in formulating the Personalist Catholic ideology that underlay the Quiet Revolution and that ordinary Quebecers experienced the Quiet Revolution primarily through a series of transformations in the expression of their Catholic identity. In so doing Gauvreau offers a new understanding of Catholicism's place in twentieth-century Quebec. Catholicism emerges as an institution increasingly dominated by the priorities of laypeople and as the central force in Quebec's cultural transformation during the mid-twentieth century. He shows that the Church espoused a particularly radical understanding of modernity between the 1930s and the 1960s, especially in the areas of youth, gender identities, marriage, and family.