Abchristianization: Doubts and Desertion within the Breton Clergy (1960–1990)

By Yvon Tranvouez
English

The Second Vatican Council was soon followed by a post-68 crisis and led in Brittany to a number of desertions or marginalizations within the Catholic elites, in particular in the sixties and seventies. Focusing on the clergy, the study, based on six published testimonials, is an attempt to describe and account for this process of detachment from religion as a professional, intellectual and psychological crisis.

Keywords

  • Catholicism
  • clergy
  • post-Vatican II crisis
  • desertion
  • Brittany
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