The privilege of being banal : art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris

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    • Oliphant, Elayne

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The privilege of being banal : art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris

Elayne Oliphant

（Class 200 : new studies in religion / edited by Kathryn Lofton and John Lardas Modern）

University of Chicago Press, 2021

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index

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内容説明

France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage." In a creative inversion, Elayne Oliphant asks in The Privilege of Being Banal what, exactly, is hiding in plain sight? Could the banality of Catholicism actually be a kind of hidden power? Exploring the violent histories and alternate trajectories effaced through this banal backgrounding of a crucial aspect of French history and culture, this richly textured ethnography lays bare the profound nostalgia that undergirds Catholicism's circulation in nonreligious sites such as museums, corporate spaces, and political debates. Oliphant's aim is to unravel the contradictions of religion and secularism and, in the process, show how aesthetics and politics come together in contemporary France to foster the kind of banality that Hannah Arendt warned against: the incapacity to take on another person's experience of the world. A creative meditation on the power of the taken-for-granted, The Privilege of Being Banal is a landmark study of religion, aesthetics, and public space.

目次

Introduction: The Privilege of Banality Part I: Curating Catholic Privilege Chapter 1: Evangelization and Normalization Chapter 2: Crystallization and Renaissance Part II: Mediating Catholic Privilege Chapter 3: Walls That Bleed Chapter 4: Learning How to Look Part III: Reproducing Catholic Privilege Chapter 5: The Immediate, the Material, and the Fetish Chapter 6: The Banality of Privilege Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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