TY - BOOK ID - 66128739 TI - The privilege of being banal : art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris PY - 2020 SN - 9780226731261 9780226731124 022673112X 022673126X 9780226731438 022673143X PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Secularism KW - Church and state KW - Art and religion KW - Art and religion. KW - Church and state. KW - Secularism. KW - Social aspects. KW - Catholic Church KW - Catholic Church. KW - Social aspects KW - France KW - Art KW - Arts in the church KW - Religion and art KW - Religion KW - Christianity and state KW - Separation of church and state KW - State and church KW - State, The KW - Ethics KW - Irreligion KW - Utilitarianism KW - Atheism KW - Postsecularism KW - Secularization (Theology) KW - Religious aspects KW - 211.55 KW - 211.55 Secularisatie. Entmythologisierung KW - Secularisatie. Entmythologisierung KW - Sécularisation KW - Eglise et Etat KW - Art et religion KW - Church of Rome KW - Roman Catholic Church KW - Katholische Kirche KW - Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva KW - Römisch-Katholische Kirche KW - Römische Kirche KW - Ecclesia Catholica KW - Eglise catholique KW - Eglise catholique-romaine KW - Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ KW - Chiesa cattolica KW - Iglesia Católica KW - Kościół Katolicki KW - Katolicki Kościół KW - Kościół Rzymskokatolicki KW - Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai KW - Katholikē Ekklēsia KW - Gereja Katolik KW - Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit KW - Kanisa Katoliki KW - כנסיה הקתולית KW - כנסייה הקתולית KW - 가톨릭교 KW - 천주교 KW - Paris (France) KW - C1 KW - katholicisme KW - secularisering KW - architectuur KW - Kerken en religie KW - Collège des Bernardins (Paris, France) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66128739 AB - "In the French public sphere, Catholicism remains a monumental presence. It defines the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris and yet it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage" in an otherwise secular nation. In a creative inversion, Elaine Oliphant asks in The Privilege of Being Banal what, exactly, is hiding in plain sight ? Is the banality of Catholicism a kind of power ? Oliphant's focus on the banal is exceptional in ethnographic studies of religion, which tend to seek out the spectacular. Focusing on the unremarked entails a radical disavowal of the view that there is anything natural or inevitable in Catholicism's banality, and indeed Oliphant unearths the ongoing efforts that contribute to the perception of Catholic symbols as subtly secular. Exploring the violent histories and alternate trajectories effaced through the contemporary banal, this richly textured ethnography lays bare the profound nostalgia that undergirds Catholicism's circulation in non-religious sites such as museums, corporate spaces, and political debates. Oliphant's aim is to unravel the contradictions between 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"-- ER -