| Ethics of Catholicism and the Consecration of the Intellectual Subjects: Intellectuals -- History; Intellectual life -- History; Christian ethics -- History; Religion and culture -- History; Religion and ethics -- History; Arguing that the religious values of a particular culture can account for differences in the role of intellectual elites, André Bélanger compares the very distinct traditions of French Catholicism and Anglo-Saxon Protestantism to demonstrate the strong relationship between the Catholic tradition and the emergence of an intellectual elite in secularized Catholic societies. |