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

by (author) Michael Gauvreau

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2007
Category
History, Revolutionary
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773528741
    Publish Date
    Nov 2005
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773533714
    Publish Date
    Dec 2007
    List Price
    $42.95

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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 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.

About the author

Michael Gauvreau, professor of history at McMaster University, is the author and editor of numerous works, including Mapping the Margins: Families and Social Disciplines in Canada, 1700-1970 and Cultures of Citizenship in Postwar Canada, 1940-1955.

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