L’histoire religieuse est un champ de recherches dynamique. Sur la très longue durée, du Moyen Âge à l’époque très contemporaine, cet ouvrage se propose d’en explorer les plus récents questionnements et objets. Adoptant de multiples échelles – locale, régionale, nationale ou internationale –, les contributions ici réunies reflètent les curiosités et le cheminement intellectuels de Marc Agostino, professeur émérite à l’université de Bordeaux 3. Après une thèse de troisième cycle sur le cardinal Lecot (1831-1908), figure symbolique de l’épiscopat de la Troisième République (1974), Marc Agostino consacra sa thèse d’État à Pie XI et l’opinion publique (1986), examinant en particulier les presses française et italienne. Il poursuivit parallèlement ses travaux sur le catholicisme du Sud-Ouest aquitain, lesquels débouchèrent sur ses Deux siècles de catholicisme à Bordeaux (2001). De Bordeaux à Rome, des rivages de la Méditerranée au continent américain, ce volume entend revisiter une partie des interrogations et des terrains d’investigation de Marc Agostino. On parcourt d’abord les traces laissées par les identités religieuses en Aquitaine avant de projeter ses feux sur les débats suscités par les engagements religieux des catholiques dans la France des temps modernes. Le magistère pontifical, ses prises de position et ses relais constituent également un objet longuement examiné. Enfin, l’affirmation des appartenances religieuses et plus particulièrement catholiques dans le monde contemporain se retrouve au coeur des ultimes textes proposés. Coordonnateurs de l’ouvrage, Claire Laux, Jean-Pierre Moisset et Nicolas Champ sont maîtres de conférences à l’université de Bordeaux 3. Leurs travaux portent sur l’histoire religieuse contemporaine. Table des matières Jean-Pierre Moisset, Josette Pontet, Michel Vergé-Franceschi, Marc Agostino, Introduction Partie introductive 1. Jean-Pierre Moisset, Historien du religieux. 2. Josette Pontet, De la Méditerranée à l'Atlantique: le parcours de Marc Agostino, historien du monde chrétien contemporain. 3. Michel Vergé-Franceschi, Corte, ville cosmopolite aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. 4. Bibliographie des travaux de Marc Agostino. I. Bordeaux et l'Aquitaine 1. Jean-Bernard Marquette, Les résidences de Clément V en Bordelais (1305-1308). 2. Anne-Marie Cocula, Guerres de villes et guerres de religion en Périgord. 3. Laurent Coste, Entrées en religion sous l'Ancien Régime: l'exemple fille des Cives burdigalenses. 4. Josette Pontet, Les transformations de la cathédrale de Bayonne au XVIIIe siècle. 5. Éric Suire, L'univers matériel des gens d'Église en Bordelais à la fin de l'Ancien Régime. 6. Séverine Pacteau-De Luze, De Chalais à Neuchâtel et Bordeaux: Jacques Deluze et ses descendants. Protestantisme et mouvements de population, entre mémoire et histoire. II. La France et les espaces francophones 1. Frédéric Knerr, "Le clergé dans la mêlée". L'abbé Naudet et la propagande catholique en milieu ouvrier: les débuts mouvementés d'un nouvel apostolat social. 2. Jean-François Labourdette, L'échec de la politique de concorde de Charles IX, de la pacification de Saint-Germain (10 août 1570) à la Saint-Barthélemy (24 août 1572). 3. Louis Bergès, Balzac et Lamennais. 4. Jean-Claude Drouin, Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie (1793-1876), le dernier légitimiste du XIXe siècle. Ultra-royalisme et ultramontanisme. 5. Bruno Béthouart, Les Semaines sociales de France: itinérances de 1904 à 2004. 6. Ludovic Laloux, Panorama des mouvements catholiques dans le cadre scolaire français depuis le XIXe siècle. 7. Christophe Lastécouères, L'"antichrématistique" selon Hergé. III. Rome, le Vatican, et l’Italie 1.Jacques Palard, La gauche française au pouvoir à l'épreuve de l'enseignement catholique : 1981-1984. Nouvelle donne et règlement par la crise. 2. François Cadilhon, La presse française et les élections pontificales au début du XVIIIe siècle. 3. Nicolas Champ, Lettres de Rome. Le cardinal Villecourt et ses correspondants français à l'heure de l'Unité italienne.4. Jean-Dominique Durand, Catholiques et orthodoxes face à la question sociale. Pour une approche comparée. 5. Christine Bouneau, Fascination italienne et mission à Rome d'Hubert Lagardelle, un intellectuel français dans son siècle. 6. Delphine Dussert-Galinat, L'Église de Jean-Paul II et l'islam: une doctrine à l'épreuve de l'expérience 7. Philippe Levillain, Béatifier Jean-Paul II ?. IV. Terres lointaines 1. Alexandre Fernandez, L'Espagne, méditerranéenne ?. 2. Dominique Jarrassé, Deux synagogues d'Algérie. ou l'orientalisme peut-il devenir une modalité de la francisation ?. 3. Annie Lenoble-Bar, Tradition et modernité dans la presse missionnaire: Afriquespoir (1998-2011). 4. François-Charles Mougel, Religion et identité nationale: de l'Amérique coloniale aux États-Unis (1607-1791). 5. Philippe Loupès, "San Francisco, guarda mis animalitos...". Ex-voto contemporains à Santiago du Chili.

These reviews, notices, and introductory sections by a major figure in intellectual history represent more than a decade of effort to define and clarify a new form of scientific investigation. Together, they offer a suggestive new picture of Emile Durkheim as "Scholarch" of the "French School" and master of a whole school of social thought. For fifteen years, Emile Durkheim worked on the journal L'Annee Sociologique—selecting, editing, writing, and shaping the goals and methods of the "French School" of sociology. Now, Durkheim's own contributions to L'Annee are available in English. Classified and explained by Durkheim scholar Yash Nandan, this useful collection clarifies the role of L'Annee Sociologique in the development of scientific sociology; the position of L'Annee in the body of Durkheim's own work and the development of Durkheim's ideas; the importance and function of Durkheim's categories of sociological data; Durkheim's view of contemporaries, including Simmel, Westermarck, Tarde, Glotz, and Steinmetz; the exchange of ideas between historians and the L'Annee group; and the reasons for L'Annee's reputation as a unique publication in the history of sociology. Professor Nandan has organized this material according to Durkheim's own classification system, with major sections on the concepts and methodologies of general, juridic, and moral sociology, criminal sociology, and the statistics on morals. Subdivisions treat issues in law, suicide, social, political, and domestic organization, juridic and moral systems, the social contexts of crime, the sociology of knowledge, political sociology, social history, and historical sociology.

Catholicism, once the protean monster, still functions as a complex component of French identity. No consideration of modern France would be complete without reference to the enduring impact and influence of Catholicism on the life of the nation. This volume sets out to capture some of the variety and significance of the Catholic phenomenon in twentieth-century secular France, and to express something of its extraordinary vitality and interest. Each contribution focuses on a specific theme or period crucial to an understanding of the role played by French Catholics and their Church. Collectively, these studies reveal that Catholics were involved in almost every event of consequence and voiced an opinion on almost every issue. Equally, the volume offers a collage of insights which reflects the fragmentation of Catholic activity and attitudes as the century progressed. Being Catholic in modern France no longer means the espousal of a particular political or social agenda. Nor does it necessarily mean regular and traditional religious observance, or even strict adherence to the dictates of the Church. Modern French Catholicism truly has many mansions.

"For far too long Catholic teaching sisters have been denied their rightful place in the history of education. It is only during the past twenty-five years that researchers in many countries have begun to reveal the fundamental role played by these women in the schooling of children of both the masses and the elite during the 19th and 20th centuries. This essay provides for the first time a detailed overview of the historiography of the teaching sisters in Western Europe, North America, Latin America and Australasia, surveying scholarship since 1985. It reviews the literature on six major themes: contribution to schooling, teaching orders and schools, educational philosophy, content and practice, life and lived experience of teachers and students, the professionalization of teaching, and changes in the composition of the teaching staff. Very rich in bibliographical references, this book is indispensable for all further research on this significant but underexplored group of women teachers."--Publisher's website.

With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples – notably Japan and Quebec – Date, Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system. Small nations, by their very nature, raise significant questions about what a nation is. Some small nations are sovereign states with relatively small populations and limited territory, others are nations within larger sovereign states, with distinctive cultures, governance structures or other features that differentiate them from their “parent” state. By focussing on non-European nations in particular, the contributors to this volume challenge our conceptions of what a small nation is and how it operates within the international system. They focus in particular on the nation-within-a-nation-state of Quebec and on Japan, supplemented by further examples from East Asia. By interrogating what these examples have to show us about the typology and character of small nations, they offer a critique of superpower and draw out the potential of small nation studies. A valuable resource for students and scholars of international relations and theories of the nation and nation state.

This volume probes and deciphers the tensions and contradictions that underlie modern European Liberal Catholicism. Beginning with the French revolution and looking at dialogues between European 'public moralists', the book discusses the ways in which liberal Catholics loosened their bonds with religion, all the while relying on it. It reflects on how and why they promoted a post-revolutionary state and society based on religious dogma and morality, and what new liberal order and socio-political and religious models they proposed. Beyond the analysis of the work of these Catholic intellectuals, the question of their conceiving a specific liberal approach through Catholicism is also investigated. More generally, it prompts a vital reappraisal of the political, ideological and philosophical pressures that the religious question caused in the redefinition of Western European post-revolutionary liberalism.