2. Paul Valéry and French Catholicism: Recognizing the Context of Renewal

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “Catholicisme ondoyant”: Catholic Intellectual Engagement and the Crisis of Civilization in the 1930s 28
6. 2. Paul Valéry and French Catholicism: Recognizing the Context of Renewal 50
7. 3. A Strange Christian: Simone Weil 69
8. 4. Jean Grenier and the “Spirit of Orthodoxy” 88
9. 5. Charles Du Bos’s Catholicism and His Politics of Sincerity in Interwar France 104
10. 6. From Mystique to Théologique: Messiaen’s “ordre nuveau,” 1935– 39 129
11. 7. Rethinking the Modernity of Bernanos: A Girardian Perspective 162
12. 8. “Into the Catacombs of the Past”: Women and War time Trauma in the French Catholic Ressourcement Project (1939– 45) 186
13. 9. La Relève and Its Afterlife: A Current of Catholic Renewal in Twentieth- Century Quebec 210
14. 10. Louis Massignon: A Catholic Encounter with Islam and the Middle East 230
15. Notes 253
16. Contributors 337
17. Index 341