Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970The 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 Catholic ideology underlying the Quiet Revolution and that ordinary Quebecers experienced the Quiet Revolution primarily through a series of transformations in the expression of their Catholic identity. Providing a new understanding of Catholicism's place in twentieth-century Quebec, Gauvreau reveals that Catholicism was not only increasingly dominated by the priorities of laypeople but was also the central force in Quebec's cultural transformation.. He makes it clear that from the 1930s to the 1960s the Church espoused a particularly radical understanding of modernity, especially in the areas of youth, gender identities, marriage, and family. |
Contents
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Elites Masses and the Betrayal of Catholicism 19451958 | 34 |
Marriage Sexuality Nuclearity and the Reconstruction of the FrenchCanadian Family 19311955 | 77 |
The Disaggregation and Privatization of the FrenchCanadian Family 19551970 | 120 |
Sexuality Birth Control and Personalist Feminism 19311971 | 175 |
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