Shine a Light: Catholic Media Use, Transformations in the Public Sphere, and the Voice of the Urban Masses (Antwerp and Brussels, c. 1880 – c. 1920) (2022)
Ilja Van Damme (Author)
Jongepier, Iason (Author)
Margo Buelens-Terryn (Author)
Brepols
Pages: 101-122
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
This chapter questions the appropriation of the projection lantern by Catholics in Belgium at the start of the twentieth century. On the basis of an extensive study of early twentieth-century Belgian newspapers, this contribution will illustrate how a boom in lantern use in Belgium can be more properly tied to the rise of universal suffrage and the ideological compartmentalization (‘verzuiling’ or ‘pillarization’) of Belgian society at the end of the nineteenth century. Challenged to adapt and respond creatively to a series of important societal challenges, and eager to maintain, and even strengthen social control over the urban masses, the lantern became an effective tool for Belgian Catholic politicians and the Catholic civil society to reach a much wider audience as before about a much broader spectrum of issues. The lantern, literally, ‘enlightened’ an increasingly segmented and pluralistic Belgian society and showed Belgian Catholics the way forward in the vagaries of modern times. Through the projection lantern the Belgian masses were led out of the darkest problems of nineteenth century society and set onto a ‘righteous path’ of Catholic living and voting in the twentieth century. (Pubisher)
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