Article written by 2007 DPDF Rethinking Europe: Religion, Ethnicity, Nation Fellow and 2008 IDRF Fellow Elayne M. Oliphant, featured in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 21, No. 2:

In this article I explore the relationship between the secular and ‘cultural’ Catholicism in France through the lens of a contemporary art exhibit displayed at a new project of the French Catholic Church. Visitors’ varied responses to the exhibit, I argue, ultimately reinforced the organizers’ claim that the activities that occur within this ‘non-religious’ space of the French church are self-evident aspects of a broadly recognizable and ‘secular’ French or European culture.

Publication Details

Title
Beyond Blasphemy or Devotion: Art, the Secular, and Catholicism in Paris
Authors
Oliphant, Elayne M.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publish Date
June 2015
Citation
Oliphant, Elayne M., Beyond Blasphemy or Devotion: Art, the Secular, and Catholicism in Paris (John Wiley & Sons, June 2015).
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