Thomas Kselman
Biographic Data
| ID | 284660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Kselman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Kselman |
| SIGNATURE | KSELMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conscience and Conversion: Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France
This book explores how the French responded to the right of religious choice acquired during the revolutionary era. Religious liberty is usually part of a larger discussion about church-state relations, a context that veils the way it plays out in the lives of individuals. After establishing the legal and cultural framework for religious liberty during the Restoration (1814-1848), Kselman studies a number of prominent converts whose stories are d…
Conscience and Conversion: Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France
Romantic Catholics: France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith
The argument that France inevitably experienced a process of secularisation in the modern era has been challenged with considerable success over the last generation by historians such as Claude Langlois, Philippe Boutry, Jacques-Olivier Boudon, Ruth Harris and Sarah Curtis, to mention just a few. In her new book Carol Harrison builds admirably on past scholarship, but offers as well an important amendment to this revisionist historiography. Drawi…
Claude Langlois's Vision of Nineteenth-Century French Catholicism
This article examines some of Langlois's major works on nineteenth-century French Catholicism, which taken together suggest a vision langloisienne defined by three central, intimately interrelated insights. First, for Langlois a chronology of French Catholicism based on an assumption of an ineluctable process of dechristianization needs to be replaced by a more nuanced and contingent understanding of the evolution of belief and practice. Second, …
Church, Society and Religious Change in France, 1580-1730
At the conclusion of the wars of religion in France in 1598, the Catholic Church was in a perilous condition. Throughout large areas of the country, its buildings had been attacked and destroyed, clergy had abandoned their posts, and the state had seized and sold off church property to help pay its debts. In this book, Joseph Bergin shows in depth and detail how the French Church recovered during the long seventeenth century, a task that involved…
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914
Writing a historical survey poses a number of challenges for those who take up the task. What to include, and what to exclude? What are the chronological units and thematic categories that you will use to organise your material? What overall judgment (if any) do you want to make about your subject? In his new survey of nineteenth-century France, Gildea acknowledges the work of his teacher, Theodore Zeldin, whose two volumes in the Oxford History …
Challenges of Equality: Judaism, State, and Education in Nineteenth-Century France
Historians who work in the French archives on almost any topic will likely come across at some point in their research mountains of documentation on financial issues—accounting reports with numbing columns of figures, appeals for funds that drag on for years, bureaucratic bickering over details whose significance is hard to fathom for a contemporary observer. It is to the great credit of Jeffrey Haus that he dove into such difficult materials and…
The Red and the Black
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Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France
In ivided Houses Caroline Ford takes up the theme of the eminisation of Catholicismthat several scholars have identified as a characteristic development in modern France. In doing so, Ford pushes beyond the valuable work of historians such as Claude Langlois, who have demonstrated that women were much more likely than men to practise their religion and join religious congregations in the nineteenth century. Rather than pursue questions of practic…
Challenging Dechristianization: The Historiography of Religion in Modern France
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Death in the Western world: Michel Vovelle's ambivalent epic La mort et l'Occident, de 1300 à nos jours
Religions en transition dans la seconde moitie du XVIIIe siecle
1University of Notre Dame, Indiana Religions en transition dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle Louis Chatellier Oxford Voltaire Foundation 2000 300 £ 40
Catholicism, Christianity, and Vichy
Research Article| August 01 2000 Catholicism, Christianity, and Vichy Thomas Kselman Thomas Kselman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (3): 513–530. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-3-513 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Kselman; Catholicism, Christianity, and Vichy. French Historical Studies 1 August 2000; 23 (3):…
The Perraud Affair: Clergy, Church, and Sexual Politics in Fin-de-Siècle France
My God, why are there so many useless and unmerited sufferings upon the earth? Why do some die of hunger while others have all the joys of riches and all the splendors of luxury? Why are some born blind, others deaf‐mutes, others lepers, others paralytics? Why are innocent beings tortured their whole life through by hideous sores? Why are there mothers who kill their infants and sons who murder their fathers? Why was this furor of voluptuousness …
Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement . Ann F. La Berge , Charles Webster , Charles Rosenberg
Death and the Afterlife in Modern France.
Belief in History: Innovative Approaches to European and American Religion
The eight essays in this volume seek to re-establish the importance of belief as both an intellectually and psychologically relevant concept. A common conviction among the contributors is that careful historical work can attune readers to the nature and significance of religious belief and thereby contribute to more balanced and nuanced judgements about religion in both historical and contemporary contexts. The authors also share a concern for re…
Death and Afterlife in Modern France
Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of existence, Thomas Kselman turns to nineteenth-century French beliefs about death and the afterlife not only to show how deeply rooted the cult of the dead is in one Western society, but how death and the behavior of mourners have been politicized in the moder…
The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview, and Social Change in Brittany. Ellen Badone
Funeral Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century France
The French celebration of the centenary of Victor Hugo's death in 1985 included new editions of his works, biographies, an exhibit at the Grand Palais in Paris, all that you would expect in honor of his life and art. But Hugo's death and funeral also drew the attention of some scholars, and forgood reason. Beginning on 18 May 1885, when what proved to be his final illness was announced, the newspapers were filled with reports and rumors about Hug…
Death in historical perspective
Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Death and Afterlife in Modern France
Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of existence, Thomas Kselman turns to nineteenth-century French beliefs about death and the afterlife not only to show how deeply rooted the cult of the dead is in one Western society, but how death and the behavior of mourners have been politicized in the moder…
Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Challenging Dechristianization: The Historiography of Religion in Modern France
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Catholicism, Christianity, and Vichy
Research Article| August 01 2000 Catholicism, Christianity, and Vichy Thomas Kselman Thomas Kselman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (3): 513–530. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-3-513 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Kselman; Catholicism, Christianity, and Vichy. French Historical Studies 1 August 2000; 23 (3):…
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914
Writing a historical survey poses a number of challenges for those who take up the task. What to include, and what to exclude? What are the chronological units and thematic categories that you will use to organise your material? What overall judgment (if any) do you want to make about your subject? In his new survey of nineteenth-century France, Gildea acknowledges the work of his teacher, Theodore Zeldin, whose two volumes in the Oxford History …
Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France
In ivided Houses Caroline Ford takes up the theme of the eminisation of Catholicismthat several scholars have identified as a characteristic development in modern France. In doing so, Ford pushes beyond the valuable work of historians such as Claude Langlois, who have demonstrated that women were much more likely than men to practise their religion and join religious congregations in the nineteenth century. Rather than pursue questions of practic…
Death in the Western world: Michel Vovelle's ambivalent epic La mort et l'Occident, de 1300 à nos jours
The Perraud Affair: Clergy, Church, and Sexual Politics in Fin-de-Siècle France
My God, why are there so many useless and unmerited sufferings upon the earth? Why do some die of hunger while others have all the joys of riches and all the splendors of luxury? Why are some born blind, others deaf‐mutes, others lepers, others paralytics? Why are innocent beings tortured their whole life through by hideous sores? Why are there mothers who kill their infants and sons who murder their fathers? Why was this furor of voluptuousness …
Belief in History: Innovative Approaches to European and American Religion
The eight essays in this volume seek to re-establish the importance of belief as both an intellectually and psychologically relevant concept. A common conviction among the contributors is that careful historical work can attune readers to the nature and significance of religious belief and thereby contribute to more balanced and nuanced judgements about religion in both historical and contemporary contexts. The authors also share a concern for re…
Death in historical perspective
Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Death in historical perspective
Funeral Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century France
The French celebration of the centenary of Victor Hugo's death in 1985 included new editions of his works, biographies, an exhibit at the Grand Palais in Paris, all that you would expect in honor of his life and art. But Hugo's death and funeral also drew the attention of some scholars, and forgood reason. Beginning on 18 May 1885, when what proved to be his final illness was announced, the newspapers were filled with reports and rumors about Hug…
The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview, and Social Change in Brittany. Ellen Badone
Belief in History: Innovative Approaches to European and American Religion
The eight essays in this volume seek to re-establish the importance of belief as both an intellectually and psychologically relevant concept. A common conviction among the contributors is that careful historical work can attune readers to the nature and significance of religious belief and thereby contribute to more balanced and nuanced judgements about religion in both historical and contemporary contexts. The authors also share a concern for re…
Death and Afterlife in Modern France
Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of existence, Thomas Kselman turns to nineteenth-century French beliefs about death and the afterlife not only to show how deeply rooted the cult of the dead is in one Western society, but how death and the behavior of mourners have been politicized in the moder…
Death and the Afterlife in Modern France.
Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement . Ann F. La Berge , Charles Webster , Charles Rosenberg
The Perraud Affair: Clergy, Church, and Sexual Politics in Fin-de-Siècle France
My God, why are there so many useless and unmerited sufferings upon the earth? Why do some die of hunger while others have all the joys of riches and all the splendors of luxury? Why are some born blind, others deaf‐mutes, others lepers, others paralytics? Why are innocent beings tortured their whole life through by hideous sores? Why are there mothers who kill their infants and sons who murder their fathers? Why was this furor of voluptuousness …
Catholicism, Christianity, and Vichy
Research Article| August 01 2000 Catholicism, Christianity, and Vichy Thomas Kselman Thomas Kselman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (3): 513–530. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-3-513 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Kselman; Catholicism, Christianity, and Vichy. French Historical Studies 1 August 2000; 23 (3):…
Death in the Western world: Michel Vovelle's ambivalent epic La mort et l'Occident, de 1300 à nos jours
Religions en transition dans la seconde moitie du XVIIIe siecle
1University of Notre Dame, Indiana Religions en transition dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle Louis Chatellier Oxford Voltaire Foundation 2000 300 £ 40
Challenging Dechristianization: The Historiography of Religion in Modern France
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Red and the Black
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France
In ivided Houses Caroline Ford takes up the theme of the eminisation of Catholicismthat several scholars have identified as a characteristic development in modern France. In doing so, Ford pushes beyond the valuable work of historians such as Claude Langlois, who have demonstrated that women were much more likely than men to practise their religion and join religious congregations in the nineteenth century. Rather than pursue questions of practic…
Challenges of Equality: Judaism, State, and Education in Nineteenth-Century France
Historians who work in the French archives on almost any topic will likely come across at some point in their research mountains of documentation on financial issues—accounting reports with numbing columns of figures, appeals for funds that drag on for years, bureaucratic bickering over details whose significance is hard to fathom for a contemporary observer. It is to the great credit of Jeffrey Haus that he dove into such difficult materials and…
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914
Writing a historical survey poses a number of challenges for those who take up the task. What to include, and what to exclude? What are the chronological units and thematic categories that you will use to organise your material? What overall judgment (if any) do you want to make about your subject? In his new survey of nineteenth-century France, Gildea acknowledges the work of his teacher, Theodore Zeldin, whose two volumes in the Oxford History …
Church, Society and Religious Change in France, 1580-1730
At the conclusion of the wars of religion in France in 1598, the Catholic Church was in a perilous condition. Throughout large areas of the country, its buildings had been attacked and destroyed, clergy had abandoned their posts, and the state had seized and sold off church property to help pay its debts. In this book, Joseph Bergin shows in depth and detail how the French Church recovered during the long seventeenth century, a task that involved…
Claude Langlois's Vision of Nineteenth-Century French Catholicism
This article examines some of Langlois's major works on nineteenth-century French Catholicism, which taken together suggest a vision langloisienne defined by three central, intimately interrelated insights. First, for Langlois a chronology of French Catholicism based on an assumption of an ineluctable process of dechristianization needs to be replaced by a more nuanced and contingent understanding of the evolution of belief and practice. Second, …
Romantic Catholics: France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith
The argument that France inevitably experienced a process of secularisation in the modern era has been challenged with considerable success over the last generation by historians such as Claude Langlois, Philippe Boutry, Jacques-Olivier Boudon, Ruth Harris and Sarah Curtis, to mention just a few. In her new book Carol Harrison builds admirably on past scholarship, but offers as well an important amendment to this revisionist historiography. Drawi…
Conscience and Conversion: Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France
This book explores how the French responded to the right of religious choice acquired during the revolutionary era. Religious liberty is usually part of a larger discussion about church-state relations, a context that veils the way it plays out in the lives of individuals. After establishing the legal and cultural framework for religious liberty during the Restoration (1814-1848), Kselman studies a number of prominent converts whose stories are d…
Conscience and Conversion: Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France
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