Émile Poulat
Encyclopedia
Émile Poulat is a French historian
and sociologist. Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales
, he is also director of research at CNRS and historian of the contemporary church. He is a founding member of the Group of Sociology of Religion, director and member of the editorial boards of several journals including Politica Hermetica. His research concentrates on the conflict between Catholic culture and modern culture in the history of contemporary Catholicism
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Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and sociologist. Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...
, he is also director of research at CNRS and historian of the contemporary church. He is a founding member of the Group of Sociology of Religion, director and member of the editorial boards of several journals including Politica Hermetica. His research concentrates on the conflict between Catholic culture and modern culture in the history of contemporary Catholicism
Catholicism
Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
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Main works
- Études sur la tradition française de l'Association ouvrière, Minuit, 1955.
- Les cahiers manuscrits de Fourier, Minuit, 1957.
- Priests and Workers, An Anglo-French Discussion, SCM Press, 1961.
- Le journal d'un prêtre d'après-demain (1902–1903) de l'Abbé Calippe, Casterman, 1961.
- Histoire, dogme et critique de la crise moderniste, Casterman, 1962, 1979; Albin Michel, 1996.
- Naissance des prêtres ouvriers, Casterman, 1965.
- Intégrisme et catholicisme intégral, Casterman, 1969.
- Les "semences religieuses", Université Lyon-II, 1973.
- Catholicisme, démocratie et socialisme, Casterman, 1977.
- Une Eglise ébranlée (1939–1978), Casterman, 1980.
- Modernistica. Horizons, physionomies, débats, Nouvelles Editions Latines, 1982.
- Le catholicisme sous observation, entretiens avec Guy Lafon, collection Les Interviews, Paris, Le Centurion,1983.
- Ère post-chrétienne, Paris, Flammarion, 1994.
- Histoire dogme et critique dans la crise moderniste. Suivi de La réflexion d'Alphonse Dupront, 1962, Albin Michel, 1996.
- Henri DesrocheHenri DesrocheHenri Desroche was a French sociologist. His writings center around the sociology of religion and cooperative systems and movements...
, un passeur de frontières, with Claude Ravelet, L'Harmattan, 1997. - La solution laïque et ses problèmes, Berg International, 1997.
- Henri Desroche un passeur de frontière, L'Harmattan, 1997.
- Les Prêtres-Ouvriers, Paris, Le Cerf editions, 1999.
- L'université devant la mystique, Salvator, 1999.
- Deus ex-machina, L'Âge d'Homme, 2002.
- Notre laïcité publique, Berg international, 2003.
- Le christianisme à contre-histoire, with Didier Decherf, Éditions du Rocher, 2003.
- Les discriminations religieuses en France, with Dominique Kounkou, Chrétiens Autrement, 2004.
- La question religieuse et ses turbulences, Paris, Berg international, 2005.
- (dir.) 1905-2005. Les enjeux de la laïcité, with Alain Bondeelle, Jean Boussinesq, Alain Boyer, Driss El Yazami, Alain Gresh, Michel Morineau, Émile Poulat, Tariq RamadanTariq RamadanTariq Ramadan is a Swiss academic, poet and writer. He is also a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University...
, Joël Roman, Michel Tubiana, L'Harmattan, 2005. - Église contre bourgeoisie, Paris, Berg International, 2006.
- L'Antimaçonnisme catholique, with Jean-Pierre LaurantJean-Pierre Laurant-Biography:Laurant was born in 1935 in Paris and studied at the Lycée Claude Bernard. Two major early influences were Julien Gracq and Jean-René Huguenin, in whose weekly Arts Laurant published....
, Paris, Berg international, 2006. - La Séparation et les églises de l'Ouest, L'Harmattan, 2006.
- Les diocésaines, la Documentation française, 2007.
- France chrétienne, France laïque, with Danièle Masson, Desclée de Brouwer, 2008.
- Aux carrefours statégiques de l'Église de France, Berg International, 2009.
- Scruter la loi de 1905, la République française et la Religion, Fayard, 2010