Bruno Étienne
Bruno Étienne | |
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| Born | 6 November 1937 |
| Died | 4 March 2009 (aged 71) |
| Education | Lycée Thiers |
| Alma mater | Tunis University Sciences Po Aix |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
Bruno Étienne (born in 1937 in La Tronche, Isère, died in Aix-en-Provence on 4 March 2009 after a cancer)[1] was a French sociologist, freemason[2] and a political analyst. He was a specialist of Algeria, Islam and anthropology of the religious and masonic fact.
Biography
[edit]Youth and Education
[edit]He graduated in Arabic-language and political sciences at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and the University of Tunis. Bruno Étienne was a researcher in Cairo and was a teacher at the ENA-Algiers, at the law faculty of Algiers and the universities of Casablanca and Marmara. He was also director of researches at the CNRS.
Teacher at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, he was the founder and was director until 2006 of the Observatoire du religieux. Bruno Étienne was also member of the Institut universitaire de France.
Bruno Étienne was the founder of a school of researchers in Aix-en-Provence including Raphaël Liogier, Jocelyne Cesari and Frank Fregosi. Gilles Kepel was also under his influence.
He was member of the Grand Orient de France[3] and was a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Publications
[edit]- By Bruno Étienne
- L'islamisme radical, Paris, LGF, 1989.
- La France et l'islam, Paris, Hachette, 1989.
- Abdelkader, Paris, Hachette, 1994.
- Une grenade entrouverte, La Tour d'Aigue, Aube ed., 1999.
- L'Islam en France, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2000.
- Ils ont rasé la Mésopotamie : du droit de coloniser au devoir d'ingérence, Paris, Eshel, 2000.
- Les amants de l'apocalypse, La Tour d'Aigue, Aube ed., 2002.
- L'Initiation, Paris, Dervy, 2002.
- La France face aux sectes, Paris, Hachette, 2002.
- Islam, les questions qui fâchent, Paris, Bayard, 2003.
- Abd el-Kader : Le Magnanime (with François Pouillon), Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard" (n° 431), 2003.
- La voie de la main nue : Initiation et karaté-do, Paris, Dervy, 2004.
- Être bouddhiste en France aujourd'hui (with Raphaël Liogier), Paris, Hachette, 2004.
- Heureux comme Dieu en France ? : La République face aux religions, Paris, Bayard, 2005.
- Pour retrouver la parole : Le retour des frères (with Alain Bauer, Roger Dachez and Michel Maffesoli), La Table Ronde, 2006.
- La spiritualité maçonnique : Pour redonner du sens à la vie, Paris, Dervy, 2006.
- Une voie pour l'occident, Dervy 2000
References
[edit]- ^ "Bruno Etienne Sociologue, spécialiste des religions". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- ^ La spiritualité maçonnique : Pour redonner du sens à la vie (Bruno Etienne, ed. Dervy, 2006)
- ^ ""Une franc-maçonnerie ravagée par la démagogie profane", by Bruno Étienne". Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on June 14, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
External links
[edit]- A tribute to Bruno Étienne, articles on Observatoire du Religieux
- (in French) Bruno Étienne association
- (in French) Interview on La pensée du Midi
- (in French) "France-Algérie, les douleurs de la mémoire" on La pensée du Midi
- (in French) "Étrange étrangeté d'une mère non étrangère" on La pensée du Midi
- (in French) "Fondement du politique en méditerranée" on La pensée du Midi
- (in French) "Fin du politique ou fin de la politique ?" on La pensée du Midi
- (in French) "Lois mémorielles ou abus de mémoire ?" on LDH-Toulon
- (in French) "Marseille ou l’Orient à domicile !" on LDH-Toulon
- (in French) "Pape : la ferveur et la laïcité" on Le Monde
- (in French) "Sans pères ni repères les groupes de pairs créent des repaires/repères", on La Science Politique
- 1937 births
- 2009 deaths
- People from La Tronche
- French sociologists
- French scholars of Islam
- French political scientists
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- Sociologists of religion
- Sciences Po Aix alumni
- Tunis University alumni
- Deaths from cancer in France
- French Freemasons
- Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research