eredienst
English translation: revolutionary cult service
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worship / service Explanation: so states my trusty VanDale However, the text suggests it concerns a contemporary honor service, but couldn't find anything else in an internet search. Grz. Marijke VanDAle N-E |
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secular liturgy Explanation: The Temple of Reason substituted the religious function of the church in question with a secular service. The word 'liturgy' can be applied to both religious and secular services although it most fittingly applies to the Roman Catholic rituals. |
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. . . the French revolutionaries' secular service of worship . . . Explanation: I would emphasize first of all the secular aspect, but also the notion of worship |
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service Explanation: eredienst - is the normal Dutch word for a Sunday morning church service celebration service is also a possibility (I am a committed Christian and I go to an English language church in Amsterdam which uses this word for an evening service) - but this stresses "ere" more than would normally be appropriate 7 years of translation experience commited bilingual Christian |
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revolutionary cult service Explanation: The new secular religion was named "Cult of Reason". See: Then the Department and the Commune assembled at the bar of the Convention, where Chaumette declared, in their name, that the people wanted no other priests or gods than those which nature offers us: 'We, their magistrates, have gathered from their lips this expression of their wish, and we bring it to you from the Temple of Reason' and he asked that henceforth Notre-Dame should be known as the Temple of Reason. A decree to this effect was immediately passed. . . . "The Worship of Reason was nearly everywhere deistic and not materialistic or atheistic." [In Deism, nature is worshiped. It was atheistic in the sense of replacing the creator of nature with nature itself as the object of worship. The deism developed from the atheism.](Aulard, Ibid, pp. 106, 107, 111) Dechristianization (quotation begins) "A dechristianization of France started in 1793 . . . first with the Cult of Reason, then with that of the Supreme Being. [The foremost aim was] To defend the country and the Revolution . . . against the priests, who showed themselves hostile http://www.hoofprint.com/revelation/r-seg11-12/r11f-Fr-rev.h... HTH own knowledge web |
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