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Synopsis
Documenting an audacious Franco-German movement for moral disarmament, instigated in 1921 by war veteran and French Catholic politician Marc Sangnier, in this transnational study Gearoid Barry examines the European resonance of Sangnier's Peace Congresses and their political and religious ecumenism within France in the era of two World Wars.
Synopsis
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Marc Sangnier's War, 1914-1919 Demobilization and Politics, 1919-1921 'The traitor in Berlin': Paris, Germany and Austria, 1921-22 From Pragmatist to Dove: Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 1923 Pacem in terris: Politics, Theology and Cultural Demobilization, 1924-25 Bierville and the Liturgy of Peace, 1926 Crusade of Youth, 1927-32 Sangnier and the PacifistConundrum, 1932-45 Conclusion Appendix: A International Democratic Peace Congresses, 1921-32 Bibliography Index