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De « l’exception religieuse » états-unienne

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Fabienne Randaxhe
p. 7-25

Abstracts

Born from the french observer A. de Tocqueville, the thesis of an american “religious exception” reconsidered, more than a century later, through an american eye, T. Parson’s, remains controversial. The paper goes back over their understanding of religious diversity and vitality, of revivalism, of disestablishment and of civil religion as marks of an exception regarding the United States. To what extent do the dynamics within the religious fields, american and european, act against the thesis? What elements uphold the reverse theory of converging moves? The paper emphasizes the core question of the politicization of religious and moral issues, supporting that such a process has been existing in the United States for long. It suggests that the “exceptional case” of the United States regarding the religious field lies less in the absence of such a process than in the regulation of religious conflicts by the State intervention through the judiciary.

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Editor’s note

Source primaire :
Fabienne Randaxhe, « De “l’exception religieuse” états-unienne », Archives de Sciences sociales des Religions, n° 122, avril-juin 2003, p. 7-25

References

Bibliographical reference

Fabienne Randaxhe, « De “l’exception religieuse” états-unienne », Archives de Sciences sociales des Religions, n° 122, avril-juin 2003, p. 7-25.

Electronic reference

Fabienne Randaxhe, « De « l’exception religieuse » états-unienne », Archives de sciences sociales des religions [Online], 122 | avril - juin 2003, Online since 10 November 2005, connection on 19 April 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/assr/1515 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/assr.1515

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About the author

Fabienne Randaxhe

GSRL – CNRS-EPHE – Université Saint-Étienne

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The text only may be used under licence © Archives de sciences sociales des religions. All other elements (illustrations, imported files) are “All rights reserved”, unless otherwise stated.

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