The concept of ‘religious landscape’ cannot be confused either with that of a cultuel landscape (the integration of cultuel practices and pathways into the building blocks of a landscape) or with that of cultural space (the structuring of a social space through the dissemination and prioritisation o...

Eustache Le Sueur, Agar et l’Ange secourus par l’Ange, 1625 – 1650, huile sur toile, 158 x 114 cm, Rennes, musée des Beaux-Arts. Type : appel à communication Date limite de l'appel : 20 juillet 2017 Date de l'événement : 30 novembre - 1er décembre 2017 Lieu : Munich Holy children/Liminal bodies. The...

Asch Susan. Raymaekers (Paul) Desroche (Henri) The Administration and the Sacré. Religious speeches and political debates in Central Africa (1921-1957). In: Archives of social sciences of religions, No. 59/2, 1985. pp. 295-296.

When the ineffable is widely considered the symbolic paradox in the Zen school of Buddhism, it seems that the narrowness of language has been thus demonstrated in the realm of interpretation of buddhadhātu (buddha-nature). Therefore, the Zen has been characterized by its emphasis on both the rupture...

This article will show the instability of the religious figure in post-colonial Africa. The film On behalf of the Christ of the Ivorian director Roger Gnoan M’Bala is the place for the proclamation of a false black prophet, a caricature of a secretive society that is said to be abandoned from his an...

Le Vanuatu, secret and sacred are strongly linked. Cultural regulations precisely dictate access and restrictions on the objects and knowledge related to the sacral. These codifications and the traditions they affect are of great importance in the context of the identity assertion of this young repu...

The issue of the inclusion of sacrality in space is a real theoretical object, which has now been explored for a long time; it is also a nucleus of problems encountered on a daily basis by researchers who develop the analysis of a dedicated space, for example as part of a Master’s degree or a thesis...

Lèpre is a particular disease in the Middle Ages, the representations of which vary between curse and benection, sacer and Sanctus, avers and setbacks in the same room that Durkheim referred to as ‘sacred’. Religious constructions, these ambivalent images have an impact on behaviour towards the inju...

This paper is based on research undertaken during the Masterclass "Sacred and Urbanism: Entrepreneurial Religion, Infrastructure and the New Urbanism in Nigeria" held at the University of Ibadan in June 2017. A team of postgraduate students carried out a day of field research in the area of the Sabo...

This study aims at understanding in what ways the biblical figure of Stephen (Acts 6-8) was transmitted and received in Christianity during the first six centuries of our era. From the text of the Acts of the apostles to the translation of his relics to Rome in 589, our investigation attempts to gra...

Merchandise 4 October 2017 at 18: 00 — Ciné Tambour Rennes 2. This first session — Variables from the 2017-2018 season — is a sign of the fracture that marks the sacred land of Israel and Palestine. Opening this session, Laurent Mareschal’s film invites us to think plastic and poetic, in the form of...

on 4 December, the AHA opened its “Making and defeat” screening cycle dedicated to socio-anthropological cinema. The 26-minute documentary of the sacred hair — the Mons Ducasse Festival — was broadcast in the presence of Florian Vallée, the director, and Aurélien Baroiller, an anthropologist attache...

If you do not know, ‘for equality between men and women, France is committed’, and that makes it a sacred end of time... A charter was signed on 8 March 2004 by Nicole AMELINE, Minister of State for Parity and Professional Equality. The implementation of this Charter has been coordinated by the Miss...

The author analyses a rare case of mirror-outrage that followed the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan. This event brought the Taliban and the international community into opposition in 2001. The article first stresses the intriguing paradigmatic similarities between the destruction of the Buddha...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

Professor Mercedes García-Arenal is Research Professor at CCHS-CSIC in Madrid, and a renowned Spanish historian of the Moriscos and of the relations between Islam and Christianity in early modern Iberia and the Mediterranean, including North Africa. Date et lieu: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 4:30p...

Degree: Master of Arts Abstract: This study explores the little-examined dimensions of a highly influential Buddhist organization, Fo Guang Shan (佛光山), which was founded in Taiwan and established more than 200 branches on all five continents. Through ethnographic research focusing on Buddhist materi...

The concept of ownership in condominium in France is defined by the Article 1 of the Law of 10 July 1965 states: "This Act governs any building or group of buildings whose ownership is divided among several people, composed each one by a private part and a part of common areas. ".The Lot of condomin...

at the beginning was the road... The Knight, a man of war, and the pilgrim, a man of faith: two figures that are traditionally assimilated to the Western Middle Ages. The medieval knight rightly belongs to the imagination of this long period of time between Antiquity and Renaissance; but païle times...

Listed on the occasion of an excursion between friends to the Damas de la Meuse and the Han caves in Belgium at the end of September 1869, Malgrétout appeared in the ‘Revue des Oils and Mondes’ in February — March 1870. Sand’s somewhat crispy relationship with Buloz, suspected of wanting above all t...

Parution — People like others. Bioethics, anonymity and gender of the Irene Théry donation, People like others. Bioethics, anonymity and genus of donation, Paris, EHESS Editions, 2010. Whether or not anonymity should be removed in the context of a third party donor? Irène Théry, a wholehearted pen,...

Attempts at answering naive questions such as:`listenonord signe="disque"b`elemlistebWhat is art, its relations with esthetics?`/elemlisteb`elemlistebIs art a representation of reality... or a capture of the real?`/elemlisteb`elemlistebWhat are art’s relations with the sacred?`/elemlisteb`elemlisteb...

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William Grogola, founder of temporalism in France, has built conceptual tools to access empirically the different times of human activities. The “time frame” is a central concept of its proposal, which aims to delimit time spaces and study the substance of the time it contains. First of all, we set...