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The Gospel According to Renan: Reading, Writing, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century France de Robert D. Priest

The Gospel According to Renan: Reading, Writing, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century France: Oxford Historical Monographs

Autor Robert D. Priest
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 feb 2015
The Gospel According to Renan provides a new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century: Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus (Vie de Jésus). Published in 1863, Renan's book aroused enormous controversy through its claim to be a historically accurate biography of Jesus. While Life of Jesus provoked the ire of the Catholic Church in hundreds of sermons and pamphlets, it also sold hundreds of thousands of copies, making a fortune for its author and his publisher.Based on research into a huge range of print and manuscript sources, The Gospel According to Renan demonstrates how Renan's work intervened in a remarkable range of debates in nineteenth-century French cultural life. These went far beyond questions of religion, from the role of individuals in history to the meaning and significance of 'race'. Through an engaging reconstruction of Renan's intellectual formation, Priest shows how Renan's ideas grew out of the context of Parisian intellectual life after his loss of faith in the 1840s. Going beyond a traditional intellectual history, Priest uses a wide range of new manuscript sources, many of which have never been examined by modern historians, in order to reconstruct the ways that ordinary French men and women engaged with one of the great religious debates of their age. By tracing the legacy of Life of Jesus into the early years of the twentieth century, Priest finally shows how Renan's work found new political meaning in the heated debates over secularisation that divided French society in the young Third Republic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198728757
ISBN-10: 0198728751
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: 7 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 182 x 223 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Historical Monographs

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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In this lucid work of deep and imaginative scholarship, Robert D. Priest integrates many of Renan's disparate identities by focusing on his most influential book, The Life of Jesus (1863). [This] is the "biography" of that biography, beginning with its germination in Renan's mind, continuing through the travail of writing it, and culminating in its reception by both elite and popular audiences and its stunning commercial success ... Priest's fine-grained study successfully illuminates Renan's bestseller as a cultural icon that both reflected and shaped the mentality of its era.
absorbing ... a persuasive and consistently interesting book, which offers an excellent model for anyone writing [about] controversial religious best-sellers
Robert Priest's splendid study of Vie de Jésus ... uncovers many of the forces that quietly shaped Renan and his book, and in doing so should give biblical critics today a lively sense of what may well be influencing them even when they claim to be neutral and scientific in their work ... With admirable care, Priest builds up a convincing picture of what Renan wished to achieve in the Vie de Jésus and how the cultural politics of the Second Empire assured that it was a success.
Priest takes the reader deep inside Renan's complicated cultural, political and personal world; he emerges from these pages as savvy, intellectually and spiritually engaged, if at times unaware of his own ambiguous assertions. Priest's portrait is a substantive addition to the growing body of scholarship that complicates the intellectual and religious world of nineteenth-century France.
One of the great pleasures of Priest's approach is that he introduces us to a Renan we have not yet met in previous studies of the historian. This portrait is perhaps even more intimate than Renan's own autobiography in that it offers a well-documented window onto the intersection of Renan's personal and professional personae. Priest digs deep into Vie de Jésus, unafraid of broaching the complicated and sometimes unpleasant details therein, such as Renan's backward views on race and culture. His choice of a chronological and thematic organization of the chapters also guides the reader through his examination of letters and journals written by Renan and his contemporaries. Best of all, while the book is an engaging and even enjoyable read, Priest is careful to ground his assertions in fact, avoiding the biographical fantasy for which Renan's own historical writings were often criticized.
Priest's study of Ernest Renan's Vie de Jésus -- both its ideological foundations and its readers' reception -- presents a fresh look at the culture wars of nineteenth-century France. Through the analysis of an impressive body of readers' letters reacting to Renan's controversial publication, The Gospel According to Renan provides a rich and variegated portrait of French society that upsets the common understanding of the time as divided neatly between Catholic and positivist worldviews ... Through the study of the origins, content, reader reception, and legacy of a single publication, Priest provides a fascinating and nuanced study of a complex epoch in French history.
Priest's book is well written and very thorough. Like the object of its study, its field of investigation ranges beyond religious issues. Through its examination of cultural and political debates in late nineteenth-century France, it will be of interest to a wide variety of readers.
The author deals with the debates, acrimonious and otherwise, that followed publication, involving Renan directly as well as his defenders and adversaries. Priest also discusses Renan's audience that encompassed intellectuals, church people, and admirers whose religious and cultural lives were transformed by Renan and his Jesus, as well as Renan's legacy and the changes in nineteenth-and twentieth-century French and European religious sentiment that occurred due to Renan's life and work.
Based on a good knowledge of the secondary literature in English and French, and inspired by recent Anglo-American cultural historiography, Priest's Gospel According to Renan realizes its ambition of giving a cultural account of the impact of Vie de Jésus in France ... One must stress the value of Priest's Gospel According to Renan for anyone interested in French cultural history.

Notă biografică

Robert D. Priest studied at University College London, wrote a doctorate at Oxford, and was then a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is the author of numerous articles on culture and ideas in nineteenth-century France. This is his first book.