International audienceThe article underlines the co-presence, in contemporary North-Western societies and particularly in times of pandemic crisis, of two currents of symbolic meaning on the origins of evil: one suggesting that it comes from the interior of the subject and of society, the other excluding it as an external threat. Considering this co-presence to be unusual, the article examines these two narrative currents in the religious field, as their traditional place of expression. The article shows that the long denial of the presence of witchcraft in the North testifies to an ancient propitiatory technique. The “North,” however, has not failed to give other representations of threats and evil, of which Christianity provides illustrat...
Cet article, qui se concentre sur les images du mal, explore l’écart entre les modes de vision indui...
International audience"Cet article présente quelques éléments historiques et contemporains relatifs ...
International audienceFrom the XIIth to the XVth century, narratives of visionary experiences, saint...
International audienceThe article underlines the co-presence, in contemporary North-Western societie...
Les récits d’abus rituels sataniques que les médias ont largement diffusés, aux États-Unis et au Roy...
Cet article discute les thèses exposées par Philippe Buc dans un livre intitulé Guerre sainte, marty...
In today's western Societies, one notices the résurgence of archaic religious practices, whichfind t...
International audienceAmong the Banda of the Central African Republic, representations of witchcraft...
Vu d’Europe, le rapprochement est vite opéré entre démons bibliques et sorciers africains. Il faut p...
International audienceThis article considers “witchcraft” as a problematic term. The ambiguity of th...
Religion : Naturalism or Supernaturalism ? Three points are underlined in order to criticize the naï...
International audienceThis article relates the organization, within contemporary French Catholicism,...
Throughout history, religious beliefs have been a primary way of understanding the experience of epi...
Cet article, qui se concentre sur les images du mal, explore l’écart entre les modes de vision indui...
International audience"Cet article présente quelques éléments historiques et contemporains relatifs ...
International audienceFrom the XIIth to the XVth century, narratives of visionary experiences, saint...
International audienceThe article underlines the co-presence, in contemporary North-Western societie...
Les récits d’abus rituels sataniques que les médias ont largement diffusés, aux États-Unis et au Roy...
Cet article discute les thèses exposées par Philippe Buc dans un livre intitulé Guerre sainte, marty...
In today's western Societies, one notices the résurgence of archaic religious practices, whichfind t...
International audienceAmong the Banda of the Central African Republic, representations of witchcraft...
Vu d’Europe, le rapprochement est vite opéré entre démons bibliques et sorciers africains. Il faut p...
International audienceThis article considers “witchcraft” as a problematic term. The ambiguity of th...
Religion : Naturalism or Supernaturalism ? Three points are underlined in order to criticize the naï...
International audienceThis article relates the organization, within contemporary French Catholicism,...
Throughout history, religious beliefs have been a primary way of understanding the experience of epi...
Cet article, qui se concentre sur les images du mal, explore l’écart entre les modes de vision indui...
International audience"Cet article présente quelques éléments historiques et contemporains relatifs ...
International audienceFrom the XIIth to the XVth century, narratives of visionary experiences, saint...