Return of Religion in France

ENDA MCCAFFREY is Reader in French at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of a number of books including The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France (2005). He has been working in French cultural studies for a number of years, co-edited a collection of essays called French Cultural Debates (2001) and has also published on French cinema.

• Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: HISTORY AND CONTEXT The Return of Religion in France Theology and Sexual Ethics Post-secularism, Belief and Being as Event PART II:PHILOSOPHY AND CONCEPTS The Postmetaphysical Postsubjectivity The 'Broken Cogito' and Textual Subjectivity Posteventality Conclusion Bibliography Index

'This rich and impressively broad-ranging book does live up to its interdisciplinary billing, and succeeds in making its powerful case: it is a myth that secular modernity represents the end of religion, and a misconception that it excludes religious belief.' - Christopher Watkin, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, French Studies