D’objet prédéfini à objet construit, l’approche du territoire religieux : le cas du diocèse en histoire religieuse contemporaine

Diocesan history, an institutional genre practised by the learned clergy writing religious history until the end of the nineteenth century, evolved in the first half of the twentieth century. It was transformed under the impulse of Gabriel Le Bras, who imposed the survey as a means to investigate pr...

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Main Author: Frédéric Knerr
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre interdisciplinaire d’Études du Religieux (CIER) 2016-02-01
Series:Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cerri/1553
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Summary:Diocesan history, an institutional genre practised by the learned clergy writing religious history until the end of the nineteenth century, evolved in the first half of the twentieth century. It was transformed under the impulse of Gabriel Le Bras, who imposed the survey as a means to investigate practices. His influence and the contributions of sociology have renewed the relationship between researchers and the territories they explore. From the territory of the exercise of power, the diocese has evolved into a territory of practices and communities, and of the internal dynamics of today’s Roman Catholic Church.
ISSN:1760-5776