Affiliation:
1. Department of Religion, Concordia University, 1455 de
Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal, Québec H3G 1 M8,
Abstract
Father Eugène Prévost ( 1860-1946) is the founder of two small Roman Catholic religious orders dedicated to the material and spiritual care of priests: for men, the Fraternité Sacerdotale; for women, the Oblates of Bethany. Born in rural Quebec, his religious training and thinking were fairly typical of the French Canadian Catholic environment of that time. His spirituality centres on the motif of Jesus as priest and victim. Father Prévost's extensive writings, often rather sentimental in the extreme, are remarkable for their sexual overtones, particularly their use of homoerotic language and imagery. This article examines some of the more significant themes of this "eroticized" discourse.
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