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Class 200: New Studies in Religion Ser.: Privilege of Being Banal : Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris by Elayne Oliphant (2021, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-10022673126X
ISBN-139780226731261
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Number of Pages280 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePrivilege of Being Banal : Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris
Publication Year2021
SubjectEurope / France, Christianity / Catholic, Christianity / Denominations, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
TypeTextbook
AuthorElayne Oliphant
Subject AreaReligion, Social Science, History
SeriesClass 200: New Studies in Religion Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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ReviewsIn The Privilege of Being Banal , Oliphant has found a rich site to explore pressing questions of the privilege of Christianity in a secular age. Writing in the wake of the burning of Notre Dame, her vivid prose transports the reader into the nave, sacristy, crypt, and vaults of a monastery turned Catholic art space. Oliphant shows that the privileges of banality enjoyed by Catholicism require work, money, and the curation of history. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to better understand the affordances of Christianity in debates about the politics of art and heritage in multireligious, self-declared secular societies., In The Privilege of Being Banal , Oliphant has found a rich site to explore pressing questions of the privilege of Christianity in a secular age. Writing in the wake of the burning of Notre Dame, her vivid prose transports the reader into the nave, sacristy, crypt, and vaults of a monastery turned Catholic art space. Oliphant shows that the privileges of banality enjoyed by Catholicism require work, money, and the curation of history. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to better understand the affordances of Christianity in debates about the politics of art and heritage in multi-religious, self-declared secular societies., Informed by critical readings of Hannah Arendt, Hans Belting, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Rancière, Max Weber, and Simone Weil, this book is a landmark study of the role of materiality in the maintenance of Catholic privilege in a contested public sphere and a very welcome contribution to the debate on secularism., Subtle. Sophisticated. Engaging. In this book on French Catholicism, Oliphant offers a penetrating look at the intersections of art, religion, and secular modernity. In the best tradition of anthropology, she provides a kind of figure-ground reversal, revealing Paris--and the powers that be--in a new light.
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Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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
SynopsisFrance, 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.
LC Classification NumberBX1533.P3O45 2020
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