Sacred Dread

In early twentieth-century France, a vast network of artists, writers, and religious seekers were drawn to Roman Catholicism's elaborate panoply of symbols centered on suffering. A preoccupation with affliction dominated the movement now known as the French Catholic revival, or the renouveau catholique —considered a watershed in the history of the modern Catholic Church and the "golden age" of French Catholicism. In Sacred Dread , Brenna Moore examines the life and writings of Raïssa Maritain (1