Religions

Religion in America: A Political History by Denis Lacorne

Religion in America: A Political History by Denis Lacorne Columbia University Press, 2nd ed. Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives defining the American identity. The first narrative, derived from the philosophy of the Enlightenment, is essentially secular. Associated with the Founding Fathers and reflected in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers, this line of reasoning is predicated on separating religion from politics to preserve political freedom from an overpowering church. Prominent thinkers such as Voltaire, Thomas Paine, and [...]

Les religions dans la ville d’aujourd’hui, par Catherine Gremion

Les religions dans la ville d’aujourd’hui par Catherine Gremion L’Harmattan Chrétiens, juifs, musulmans de toutes tendances vivent des réalités contrastées et une histoire qui s’inscrit dans la vie locale. C’est cette histoire qui est ici restituée à partir d’une enquête dans des zones urbaines neuves qui accueillent toutes les migrations d’aujourd’hui. S’appuyant sur des témoignages, voici une radiographie de situations vécues offrant une vision dépassionnée, mais sans complaisance. Voir le site web de l’éditeur. [...]

Hindu Nationalism and Violence

Hindu Nationalism and Violence Project conducted by Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow CNRS at the CERI  – Centre for International Studies and Research and Malvika Maheshwari (post-doctoral student, CERI) India witnesses an unprecedented rise in militant Hinduism since the late 1980s and early 1990s. This phenomenon remains a challenging one for social scientists in so far as the essential characteristics of Hinduism scarcely lend themselves to a monolithic radicalism and this religion cultivates an ideal of non-violence. Based on extensive archival and empirical field works, [...]

The Indian Members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies

The Indian Members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies A Research Project conducted by Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow CNRS at the CERI  – Centre for International Studies and Research This project aims at developing a database of the Indian Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of Legislative Assemblies (MLAs), the assemblies elected at the state level throughout the Indian Union. This database is bound to become a reference for the quantitative/qualitative research on Indian political personnel. Five dimensions will be explored: Gender and religion belonging of [...]

Fariba Adelkhah publie « Les mille et une frontières de l’Iran. Quand les voyages forment la nation »

Fariba Adelkhah Les mille et une frontières de l’Iran. Quand les voyages forment la nation Karthala, mai 2012 L’orientalisme et l’idéologie nationaliste ont laissé dans l’ombre les relations pluriséculaires nouées par l’Iran avec le reste du Moyen-Orient, mais aussi et surtout avec le Caucase, l’Asie centrale, le sous-continent indien et l’Extrême-Orient. Il en est découlé une perception distordue de l’histoire du pays. Depuis une quarantaine d’années, l’exil politique, l’expatriation économique, la généralisation du commerce transfrontalier, les [...]

Christophe Jaffrelot & al. publish « Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation »

Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation Edited by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot May, 2012 Numbering more than 150 million, Muslims constitute the largest minority in India, yet they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, India’s Muslims are often targets of violence and collective acts of murder. While the quality of Muslim life may lag behind that of Hindus nationally, local and inclusive cultures have been resilient in the south and the east. Within India’s cities, however, the challenges [...]

Christophe Jaffrelot publie « Politique et religions en Asie du Sud : Le sécularisme dans tous ses états ? »

Politique et religions en Asie du Sud Le sécularisme dans tous ses états ? Christophe Jaffrelot & Aminah Mohammad Arif (eds.) Éditions de l’EHESS, Février 2012 Rares sont les ouvrages dévolus au lien entre le politique et le religieux qui comparent les différentes communautés religieuses et les différents pays d’Asie du Sud. Historiens, sociologues, anthropologues et politologues comblent ce fossé en étudiant l’importante sécularisation des institutions. Ce numéro de « Purushartha » s’attache à comparer les relations qu’entretiennent politique et [...]

Gilles Kepel publie « Quatre-vingt-treize » et « Banlieue de la République »

Les banlieues seront l’un des grands enjeux de la campagne présidentielle. En publiant Quatre-vingt-treize et Banlieue de la République, relation d’une enquête approfondie menée entre 2010 et 2011 en Seine Saint-Denis, Gilles Kepel s’interroge sur la participation de l’Islam de France à la construction identitaire de notre société plurielle et explore les voies d’un débat politique central pour la France de demain. En savoir plus sur  « Banlieue de la République. Société, politique et religion à Clichy-sous-Bois et [...]

Religion in America: A Political History by Denis Lacorne

Religion in America: A Political History, by Denis Lacorne (CERI) Foreword by Tony Judt; Translated by George Holoch Columbia University Press, July 2011 Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives defining the American identity. The first narrative, derived from the philosophy of the Enlightenment, is essentially secular. Associated with the Founding Fathers and reflected in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers, this line of reasoning is predicated on separating religion from politics to preserve political freedom from an overpowering church. [...]

As French As Everyone Else? by Sylvain Brouard and Vincent Tiberj

As French As Everyone Else? A Survey of French Citizens of Maghrebin, African, and Turkish Origin,  by Sylvain Brouard and Vincent Tiberj Foreword by Paul M. Sniderman, Translated by Jennifer Fredett, Temple University Press « As French as Everyone Else? is a timely, unique, and major contribution. Brouard and Tiberj—leading French political science researchers—offer a concise book on the important case of France. Given the relatively large size of the country’s immigrant population and its political and social significance, its study is especially relevant. These scholars [...]

Christophe Jaffrelot publishes « Religion, Caste, and Politics in India »

Religion, Caste, and Politics in India Christophe Jaffrelot Columbia University Press, June 2011  Following independence, the Nehruvian approach to socialism in India rested on three pillars: secularism and democracy in the political domain, state intervention in the economy, and diplomatic non-alignment mitigated by pro-Soviet leanings after the 1960s. These features defined a distinct « Indian model, » if not the country’s political identity. From this starting point, Christophe Jaffrelot traces the transformation of India throughout the latter half of the [...]

Stéphane Lacroix publishes « Awakening Islam:The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia »

Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia Stéphane Lacroix Harvard University Press, April 2011 Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden. The result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other [...]
1 2