From Parish to Transcendent Humanism in France

Yves Lambert
Additional contact information
Yves Lambert: ESR - Unité de recherche d'Économie et Sociologie Rurales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: The purpose of this chapter is to outline the main conclusions od a study of the changes which have occured in a rural French parish from the beginning of this century to the present day. The distinguishing feature of this parish is that is located in a part of Brittany which remained firmly a part of Christendom until the 1950s. Its evolution since then has been very striking : a fall-off in religious practice, a halt in vocations, a crisis in belief as well as the ascendancy of a new form of Catholism. The situation provides the opportunity to reveal in a very clear manner what happens when a traditional rural society is violently thrust into the modern, even post-modern, world.

Keywords: RELIGION CATHOLIQUE; MORBIHAN; CROYANCES; PRATIQUE RELIGIEUSE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in The changing face of religion, Sage Publications INC, 178 p., 1989, 0-8039-8211-9

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01921574

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().