What is "anticlericalism"

Usage examples of "anticlericalism".

The Rhone Valley and the Midi seem to have been marked both by anticlericalism and militant Catholicism, and the revolutionary settlement was most widely accepted in the Seine Valley, the Paris region and in the poorest regions of central France, where the attraction of a better stipend for curates may well have been a decisive factor.

With Holy Week approaching, the best solution seemed to be to travel to Saint-Cloud, where these devotions could take place away from the angry anticlericalism of the Parisians.

Once this had happened, the royal veto was duly applied, setting off violent demonstrations in Paris and other centers of anticlericalism like Lyon and Marseille.

This was a calculated decision to co-opt the Belgian elite who had led the revolt against the Austrians and avoid alienating the majority of the population by extending French anticlericalism to one of the most fervently pious Catholic populations in Europe.

The anticlericalism of the philosophes was widespread in the late eighteenth century, especially among the upper classes, even among certain aristocratic clergymen.

There are no naughty nuns of the libertine tradition here, and none of the facile anticlericalism which opponents of the Church regularly directed against the convent system.

French Revolution, with its emphasis on equality, its profound anticlericalism and its promise that all things could be made new.