Known as an associative activist and as elected opposition member in Chartres, Jacqueline Marre, associate professor of philosophy, postgraduate doctor, is retired from National Education. She has just published her second book.
After Adorno and antiquity his new book, The policies of the Virgin Mary, gives pride of place to the Virgin Mary and her representations.
Friday evening, she was the guest of the Amsperluète bookstore to discuss this book in front of around forty people, during a sequence hosted by Olivier Lhostis, head of the Chartres bookstore.
The author offers a reflection on the heterogeneous figure of the Virgin Mary throughout history. She approaches it as a mythical object and analyzes the contradictions, dissidences and myths around her, which have always crystallized theological debates and even, sometimes, naive fervors.
“I started working on Marianne, symbol of the Republic, school, secularism at school and I found myself evoking Mary, emblematic figure of Catholicism. Marianne violently fought it, moreover, but, in the struggles for emancipation, at school and in the Republic, the shadow of Mary weighed heavily on secular powers and on social transformations”, underlines Jacqueline Fed up.
Struggles
In her book, she describes several Mariannes: the republican, the democratic and the revolutionary guiding the people, as there are several Maries, little mother of love, but also ecclesial, torn between dogma and heresy. “In reality, the two are very linked because both fought for an ideal”, sums up Jacqueline Marre.
The Politics of the Virgin Mary . The harmattan, 250 pages, €26.
