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A Political RomanceThis religion satisfies my soul’

A Political Romance: This religion satisfies my soul’ [Gambetta is famous for the declaration, ‘Clericalism! There is the enemy.’3 But his correspondence with Léon suggests that he was a moderate anticlerical by the standards of the day. While he had left his Catholicism comfortably behind and was determined to ensure the rights of a secular Republic over those of the Catholic Church, he was tolerant of others’ beliefs. Moreover, he seriously entertained the possibility of an arrangement with a ‘Gallican’ Church, rather than a separation of church and state as the Belleville Programme demanded. Under different political circumstances, he might well have resolved the religious question less acrimoniously than was the case. Nevertheless, Gambetta could, and did, mobilize verbal violence against Catholic activists when necessary for his own political ends.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Political RomanceThis religion satisfies my soul’

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
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978-1-349-30248-2
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139 –156
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10.1057/9780230369481_8
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[Gambetta is famous for the declaration, ‘Clericalism! There is the enemy.’3 But his correspondence with Léon suggests that he was a moderate anticlerical by the standards of the day. While he had left his Catholicism comfortably behind and was determined to ensure the rights of a secular Republic over those of the Catholic Church, he was tolerant of others’ beliefs. Moreover, he seriously entertained the possibility of an arrangement with a ‘Gallican’ Church, rather than a separation of church and state as the Belleville Programme demanded. Under different political circumstances, he might well have resolved the religious question less acrimoniously than was the case. Nevertheless, Gambetta could, and did, mobilize verbal violence against Catholic activists when necessary for his own political ends.]

Published: Nov 16, 2015

Keywords: Religious Practice; Religious Faith; Catholic School; Conspiracy Theory; Religious Congregation

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