First published in 1989, A Social History of French Catholicism 1789–1914 is a clear survey of over a hundred years of Catholicism in French society. It chronicles the religious experience of French men and women, both clergy and laity, in post-revolutionary France. The book begins with a look at Catholic life in the Old Regime and during the French Revolution, and proceeds to topical chapters on the secular clergy, the religious orders, popular religion, religious practice by region, gender and age, and the social classes. The final chapter deals with the re-Christianization of France in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of history and religion.

Madhusmita Mohanty, currently working as an Assistant Professor Senior Grade (Finance and Analytics) at VIT-AP School of Management (VSB), VIT-AP University. She completed her doctoral degree from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India. Her areas of expertise include Financial Management, Security Analysis, and Portfolio Management, Project Analysis and Control Systems, Financial Analytics, and Financial Modelling, Financial Market with relation to AI, ML & Blockchain applications. She has 12 years of experience in Teaching and Research. She received the Gold Medal “AIMS J L Batra Best Research Paper Award” titled “An Empirical Analysis of Volatility Spill-over Effect on Indian Financial Market Efficiency: U.S Fed Policy or International Capital Flows” during the 32nd AIMS Annual Management Education Convention from 26th August to 28th August 2021. She has presented papers at various reputed National and international conferences. She is expertise in STATA, E-Views, and Data Analytics using Advanced Excel, R Statistics, and Python.

Rajeev Ku. Panda is presently working as a Professor at the School of Management, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. His areas of interest include Entrepreneurship & Eco-systems, Skill Development, Service Quality Modelling, and Strategic Branding. He is the recipient of the prestigious Academy of Marketing Science (AMS), Young Researcher Award at the Annual Conference 2015 in New Orleans, USA. He has been awarded the Best Research Paper at many International Conferences of repute like the IIM Indore-NASMEI Summer Marketing Conference 2017, and the International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (ICBAI, 2018) at IISC Bangalore to name a few. He has published more than fifty research papers in top-rated International journals from Springer, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Emerald, etc. He has presented papers at various reputed conferences like the American Marketing Association (AMA) Annual Conference at UC San Diego 2020, the International Conference 2018 at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Strategic Management Forum Conference at Rome 2015. He has been involved in the training and development of managers of many public and private sector organizations. Dr. Panda is the Founder and Director of the NIT Rourkela’s Incubation Centre, FTBI. He is invited by the office of President of India on the Festival of Innovations, 2016 & 2017 at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi to showcase institutional innovations and their outcome.

Rakesh Kumar is a certified finance analyst and trained academic, researcher, and trainer with 24 years of experience in the field of Human Resources and Work Dynamics. His areas of expertise are Finance, Business Law, Labor Law, and Technology, and his teaching concentration includes Finance, Business Law, Labor Law, and Technology. He is also involved in the course and syllabus designing and developing on various Management topics, including analytics, wellbeing, and management curriculum. He is an ex-Army officer and served in the Indian Army for more than 23 years in management, academic, operational, and training. He has been part of many reputed government organizations in the Army. He has been part of the board of Study, board of examination, and Evaluation department in a government organization. He completed a master’s in business administration (MBA) and a Master of Commerce (M.COM). Currently, he is an academician in the Management Department at Uttaranchal University and acting extremely instrumental in strategic leadership. Having an enriched research portfolio with Scopus and international refereed journals, book chapters, and conference presentations. Has published more than 51 articles in Scopus-indexed journals including ABDC, UGC care, and reputed international journals. He has been part of many conferences like AISC, ICIDCA, and many more. He is an editor of three books. He also acts to lead and liaise between the student community and the industry delegates, with a keen interest in training around emotions and spirituality. Rashmi Ranjan Mallick, Director, KPMG Middle East, Cities, Infrastructure, PPP, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has 16 years of management consulting experience in developing businesses and leading several large-scale Infrastructure, PPP, Cities & Real Estate projects from structuring to financial close to delivery across the Middle East, Philippines & India. A unique profile with a background in Management, Planning (Masters), and Economics (Masters). Developing and Leading multicultural teams to drive business. Closed billion $ infrastructure project deal. Led to the structuring of high-quality winning proposals to securing advisory projects worth 50+ m $ to develop lasting relationships with Clients. Successfully developed the New Cities Advisory Practice within the Infrastructure Group, KPMG Saudi to expand the Group’s service offerings. Currently for ‘Cities Advisory’; Expanding the business, Expanding the multicultural team. Leading delivery of large-scale Projects. Earlier, led the delivery of large-scale Infrastructure, Real Estate & PPP projects in the Kingdom. Kushal Walia, Senior Product Manager – Technical, Amazon Web Services (AWS): Kushal Walia is a Senior Product Manager Technical at Amazon Web Services, with extensive experience in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, serverless computing, and distributed computing. He has developed deep expertise in enhancing the developer experience for AWS services, focusing on security, governance, and fraud containment on serverless platforms. Kushal’s technical leadership at AWS extends to building supply chain, logistics, and people analytics solutions, including cloud computing, serverless computing, and AI. Kushal has led initiatives to improve the efficiency of AWS’s supply chain and logistics systems. These systems, which directly relate to the compute asset infrastructure that AWS manages, have had a significant impact on our key government contracts, including those with the US Department of Defense. His work on streamlining operations and optimizing infrastructure usage has directly contributed to the success of these contracts. Kushal’s work on AI and machine learning in real-world problems extends to improving the employee experience at AWS. By leveraging large-scale data and people analytics, Kushal has driven meaningful changes in our global workforce's engagement and satisfaction. These insights have not only enhanced the employee experience but have also contributed to the overall productivity and success of the organization. Kushal’s origin in computer science has foundations in software engineering and big data engineering. As a Software Development Engineer, Kushal built solutions that enabled large U.S. companies to comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) while accepting payments in a secure and compliant manner. Additionally, as a Big Data Engineer, Kushal worked with e-commerce companies to optimize their marketing spend, increase conversion rates, and drive customer acquisition and growth.