Books by pierre antoine fabre
Cet ouvrage est consacré aux différentes échelles du pouvoir exercé par les femmes et sur elles-m... more Cet ouvrage est consacré aux différentes échelles du pouvoir exercé par les femmes et sur elles-mêmes de la part des autorités ecclésiastiques et civiles engagées dans le contrôle des congrégations religieuses féminines inspirées du modèle ignatien. Les cas d’étude ici considérés se réfèrent à la période
qui va de la suppression de la Compagnie de Jésus (1773) aux premières décennies du XXe siècle, c’est-à-dire ce que l’historiographie a défini comme « le long XIXe siècle ». Cette perspective de longue durée permet de saisir les dynamiques d’adaptation et d’évolution de ces échelles de pouvoir
face à la situation politique et religieuse des divers contextes géographiques, de l’Europe occidentale jusqu’aux Amériques.
Research Group by pierre antoine fabre
POCRAM is a research project concerning the various attitudes and positions of the political powe... more POCRAM is a research project concerning the various attitudes and positions of the political power to religious conversion. It belongs to the sub-theme “Religions et systèmes mythiques” of the Call for Projects program, more specifically connected to “questions of religious transfers” and “relationships between religion and the definition of a nation”.
State coercion in religious matters is a hot topic, which often inspires simplistic discourses opposing tolerance and bigotry. Our approach of interplays of political powers and religion is both open minded and focused on historical situations located in a distant past, when an impressive variety of attitudes to conversion were elaborated.
All religions require from their followers recognizable signs of membership, organized in more or less complex and more or less binding systems; these systems, which have been codified across history, make religious changes visible to political authorities, and eventually sensitive to them.
We shall work on religious conversions as much as they can be perceived through such signs. This is why we shall focus on individuals or groups of people changing their adhesion to a religious association, leaving apart the study of conversion as a personal experiment of intellectual or spiritual metamorphosis. By religion, we mean any organized structure based on a specific view of the world and a system of belief. By political power, we mean any form of civic authority or organization, whatever its scale.
Interplays of political powers and religious conversions can happen in many various ways: political power can identify itself with a religious group, collaborate closely with it, as well as it can disqualify it, or confront it. Political attitudes vary according to a complex set of factors depending on the position of religion in human society, on the flow of converted people, on the political and ideological background. However, despite a large number of publications on religious conversion as such, no global study of political interferences exists. A significant number of studies devoted to local situations suggest that the time has come for such a global research project.
We believe that studying the various political attitudes to conversion, seen as a sign of religious changes, can be a privileged way to a better understanding of the situation of religion in any society. We aim to study these attitudes in different settings ranging from the end of Antiquity to the ‘critical years of the European mind’ at the end of the 17th century.
Our starting point is Western Europe and relationships between Christianity (in its many branches) and other religions (Judaism, classic Mediterranean cults, Islam, as well as extra-European religions met by Christianity), and relationships between various branches of Christianity. At some point in the project, scholars working in different cultural fields will be invited to help to see European contexts in perspective.
Our goal is to elaborate a typology of political attitudes to religious conversion, to build up conceptual tools, which could be used by historians to study religious conversion as a key element of religious change. We shall use a comparatist approach, considering specific case studies across time and contexts. The research project is historical at heart, processing situations across a long period of time and a wide geographical area, but dialog with political science, sociology and anthropology is an intrinsic part of it.
Papers by pierre antoine fabre
L’exception et la Règle, 2022
Collection de l'Ecole française de Rome, 2008
A travers l'episode de la captivite du jesuite Jean de la Goutte, cette contribution cherche ... more A travers l'episode de la captivite du jesuite Jean de la Goutte, cette contribution cherche a preciser le contexte de l'engagement jesuite dans cette affaire, pour ensuite essayer une rapide formalisation du systeme de mediation mis en œuvre, enfin de constater les effets de l'echec sur la configuration de l'episode, pour ceux qui en signalent la conclusion et pour ceux qui en amorcent le recit. Le rachat d'un captif etait le lieu possible, a l'interieur des frontieres de la chretiente, d'une ouverture des cercles religieux sur un partenariat laic; a l'exterieur, il etait le lieu d'une fermeture proclamee de la chretiente aux infideles. Le cas de Jean de la Goutte, dans ses developpements complexes, ici esquisses, rend possible cette double comprehension du phenomene des rachats.
Les colloques secrets de Claude Louis-Combet, 2020
Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 2020
L'Homme, 2018
Règle du jeu : je lis la conférence de Aparecida Vilaça en fonction de ce qui, dans cette lecture... more Règle du jeu : je lis la conférence de Aparecida Vilaça en fonction de ce qui, dans cette lecture, fait le plus immédiatement écho à mes propres savoirs, à mon propre travail et, tout en même temps, peut contribuer à construire un lieu commun, qui devient presque nécessairement celui de l'aujourd'hui. L'entrée par les mathématiques Les mathématiques, « une entrée peu habituelle » dans les « processus de christianisation des peuples natifs », note Aparecida Vilaça. L'ironie est un peu vertigineuse, si l'on se rappelle l'entrée royale-au propre comme au figuré-que représentèrent les mathématiques dans l'histoire, certes incertaine, de la christianisation de la grande Chine 1. Les jésuites du Grand Siècle ne marquent-ils pas le sommet de leur gloire impériale en prenant la direction du Tribunal des mathématiques, instrument au service des anticipations calendaires de l'empereur Kang Xi ? Tout est finalement dit ici, en peu de mots, de la pluralité des mondes et, à tout le moins, de la hiérarchisation des régions du monde, entre celles auxquelles on prête une comparabilité dans le domaine des savoirs spéculatifs (nullement séparés d'ailleurs de leur efficacité pratique) et les autres. Or c'est précisément en sortant des cadres supposés de cette communauté mathématique que d'autres effets surgissent, qui renvoient au comparant (la mathématique comme « langage paradigmatique de l'Occident ») un autre visage. Commentaires sur la conférence de Aparecida Vilaça, « Le diable et la vie cachée des nombres : traductions et transformations en Amazonie », prononcée le 13 octobre 2017 au Collège de France, à Paris, et publiée dans L'Homme (2018, 225 : 149-170). Je remercie très chaleureusement Cléo Carastro et Caterina Guenzi de m'avoir offert de lire ces pages de haute culture et d'inspiration. Cette lecture précieuse est évidemment ici un préalable à ce qui suit. 1. Pour une brillante et profonde synthèse récente, cf. Antonella Romano (2016).
Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée, 2020
« Je ne suis pas theologien, mais quand meme. » Longtemps, les historiens de l’institution eccles... more « Je ne suis pas theologien, mais quand meme. » Longtemps, les historiens de l’institution ecclesiale, de l’organisation sociale et politique du monde chretien, des pratiques devotionnelles, voire de l’art religieux des epoques medievale et moderne, ont du se porter sur le terrain theologique, ou sur ses marges mystiques ou spirituelles, tout en rappelant a quel point ils n’en etaient pas – d’autant plus que, la corporation etant alors largement masculine, ils auraient pu en etre si leurs cho...
Catala: Politica missionera de la Companyia de Jesus al Nou Mon durant el generalat borgia en el ... more Catala: Politica missionera de la Companyia de Jesus al Nou Mon durant el generalat borgia en el doble front, no exempt de conflictes interns, de les expedicions jesuitiques americanes i l’estrategia eclesiastica de Roma. Paraules clau: Francesc de Borja; Jesuites; Missions americanes. Castellano: Politica misionera de la Compania de Jesus en el Nuevo Mundo durante el generalato borgiano en el doble frente, no exento de conflictos internos, de las expediciones jesuiticas americanas y las estrategias eclesiasticas romanas. Palabras clave: Francisco de Borja; Jesuitas; Misiones americanas.
Pierre-Antoine Fabre, directeur d’etudes J’ai poursuivi cette annee l’exploration d’une nouvelle ... more Pierre-Antoine Fabre, directeur d’etudes J’ai poursuivi cette annee l’exploration d’une nouvelle perspective de recherches sur l’histoire de la Compagnie de Jesus, jusqu’ici tres peu exploree selon les voies d’approche qui ont caracterise, depuis une vingtaine d’annees, les travaux sur l’ancienne Compagnie : la sequence historique qui court depuis la suppression de l’Ordre en 1773 jusqu’a sa Restauration en 1814, envisagee dans la longue duree de son deploiement tout au long du XIXe siecle, e...
Archives Des Sciences Sociales Des Religions, 2015
Paris, 19 novembre 2015 Chers collegues et amis, Vous avez reagi avec beaucoup d’emotion a la vag... more Paris, 19 novembre 2015 Chers collegues et amis, Vous avez reagi avec beaucoup d’emotion a la vague d’attentats qui a secoue Paris le 13 novembre dernier, et dont personne ne pourrait certifier qu’elle ne sera pas suivie d’autres deferlements dans les jours, les semaines ou les mois a venir. Je voudrais, en reponse et en forme de gratitude, tenter de formuler les principaux problemes qui occupent mon esprit depuis vendredi dernier – je m’exprime en mon nom parce que la manipulation ethique et...
Cette publication electronique est une edition revue et corrigee du numero 2 de la revue Enquete,... more Cette publication electronique est une edition revue et corrigee du numero 2 de la revue Enquete, anthropologie, histoire, sociologie, publiee en 1995 par les Editions Parentheses a Marseille.
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Books by pierre antoine fabre
qui va de la suppression de la Compagnie de Jésus (1773) aux premières décennies du XXe siècle, c’est-à-dire ce que l’historiographie a défini comme « le long XIXe siècle ». Cette perspective de longue durée permet de saisir les dynamiques d’adaptation et d’évolution de ces échelles de pouvoir
face à la situation politique et religieuse des divers contextes géographiques, de l’Europe occidentale jusqu’aux Amériques.
Research Group by pierre antoine fabre
State coercion in religious matters is a hot topic, which often inspires simplistic discourses opposing tolerance and bigotry. Our approach of interplays of political powers and religion is both open minded and focused on historical situations located in a distant past, when an impressive variety of attitudes to conversion were elaborated.
All religions require from their followers recognizable signs of membership, organized in more or less complex and more or less binding systems; these systems, which have been codified across history, make religious changes visible to political authorities, and eventually sensitive to them.
We shall work on religious conversions as much as they can be perceived through such signs. This is why we shall focus on individuals or groups of people changing their adhesion to a religious association, leaving apart the study of conversion as a personal experiment of intellectual or spiritual metamorphosis. By religion, we mean any organized structure based on a specific view of the world and a system of belief. By political power, we mean any form of civic authority or organization, whatever its scale.
Interplays of political powers and religious conversions can happen in many various ways: political power can identify itself with a religious group, collaborate closely with it, as well as it can disqualify it, or confront it. Political attitudes vary according to a complex set of factors depending on the position of religion in human society, on the flow of converted people, on the political and ideological background. However, despite a large number of publications on religious conversion as such, no global study of political interferences exists. A significant number of studies devoted to local situations suggest that the time has come for such a global research project.
We believe that studying the various political attitudes to conversion, seen as a sign of religious changes, can be a privileged way to a better understanding of the situation of religion in any society. We aim to study these attitudes in different settings ranging from the end of Antiquity to the ‘critical years of the European mind’ at the end of the 17th century.
Our starting point is Western Europe and relationships between Christianity (in its many branches) and other religions (Judaism, classic Mediterranean cults, Islam, as well as extra-European religions met by Christianity), and relationships between various branches of Christianity. At some point in the project, scholars working in different cultural fields will be invited to help to see European contexts in perspective.
Our goal is to elaborate a typology of political attitudes to religious conversion, to build up conceptual tools, which could be used by historians to study religious conversion as a key element of religious change. We shall use a comparatist approach, considering specific case studies across time and contexts. The research project is historical at heart, processing situations across a long period of time and a wide geographical area, but dialog with political science, sociology and anthropology is an intrinsic part of it.
Papers by pierre antoine fabre
qui va de la suppression de la Compagnie de Jésus (1773) aux premières décennies du XXe siècle, c’est-à-dire ce que l’historiographie a défini comme « le long XIXe siècle ». Cette perspective de longue durée permet de saisir les dynamiques d’adaptation et d’évolution de ces échelles de pouvoir
face à la situation politique et religieuse des divers contextes géographiques, de l’Europe occidentale jusqu’aux Amériques.
State coercion in religious matters is a hot topic, which often inspires simplistic discourses opposing tolerance and bigotry. Our approach of interplays of political powers and religion is both open minded and focused on historical situations located in a distant past, when an impressive variety of attitudes to conversion were elaborated.
All religions require from their followers recognizable signs of membership, organized in more or less complex and more or less binding systems; these systems, which have been codified across history, make religious changes visible to political authorities, and eventually sensitive to them.
We shall work on religious conversions as much as they can be perceived through such signs. This is why we shall focus on individuals or groups of people changing their adhesion to a religious association, leaving apart the study of conversion as a personal experiment of intellectual or spiritual metamorphosis. By religion, we mean any organized structure based on a specific view of the world and a system of belief. By political power, we mean any form of civic authority or organization, whatever its scale.
Interplays of political powers and religious conversions can happen in many various ways: political power can identify itself with a religious group, collaborate closely with it, as well as it can disqualify it, or confront it. Political attitudes vary according to a complex set of factors depending on the position of religion in human society, on the flow of converted people, on the political and ideological background. However, despite a large number of publications on religious conversion as such, no global study of political interferences exists. A significant number of studies devoted to local situations suggest that the time has come for such a global research project.
We believe that studying the various political attitudes to conversion, seen as a sign of religious changes, can be a privileged way to a better understanding of the situation of religion in any society. We aim to study these attitudes in different settings ranging from the end of Antiquity to the ‘critical years of the European mind’ at the end of the 17th century.
Our starting point is Western Europe and relationships between Christianity (in its many branches) and other religions (Judaism, classic Mediterranean cults, Islam, as well as extra-European religions met by Christianity), and relationships between various branches of Christianity. At some point in the project, scholars working in different cultural fields will be invited to help to see European contexts in perspective.
Our goal is to elaborate a typology of political attitudes to religious conversion, to build up conceptual tools, which could be used by historians to study religious conversion as a key element of religious change. We shall use a comparatist approach, considering specific case studies across time and contexts. The research project is historical at heart, processing situations across a long period of time and a wide geographical area, but dialog with political science, sociology and anthropology is an intrinsic part of it.