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L'Église en procès : la réponse des historiens
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ISBN: 9791021047747 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paris Éditions Tallandier / Le Figaro

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Les croisades étaient-elles une entreprise impérialiste contre l'Orient musulman ? L'Inquisition a-t-elle brûlé des milliers d'hérétiques ? La chrétienté médiévale était-elle antisémite ? Pendant les guerres de Religion, les catholiques ont-ils fait preuve d'Intolérance ? Le Vatican s'est-II aveuglé par anticommunisme sur les dangers du fascisme et du nazisme ? Autant de questions explosives en forme de réquisitoire dans un procès couramment fait à l'Eglise catholique.Les réponses données ici par quinze historiens visent d'abord à remettre en contexte chaque sujet dans son époque, avec le souci d'éviter tout anachronisme. Sans jamais remplacer la légende noire par une légende dorée, cette fresque alerte et passionnante redonne sa place à une investigation historique sans préjugés ni oeillères.


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Imagining paganism through the ages : studies on the use of the labels "pagan" and "paganism" in controversies
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ISBN: 9789042942530 9042942533 9789042942547 Year: 2020 Volume: 312 Publisher: Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters

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This volume contains the proceedings of the first International Colloquium of the Research Centre “Polemikos” that was founded in 2016 by Joseph Verheyden (KU Leuven) and Daniela Müller (RU Nijmegen). The Centre is dedicated to the study of the history of religious polemics. This first meeting, held 14-16 of March 2018 in Leuven, studied a commonly known and broadly used way to discredit an adversary by using labels, in particular the negative label par excellence – that of being “a pagan”. For practical reasons, the focus was limited to voices and evidence of Western origin – from the famous adversus Paganos literature to the controversies on native populations after the discovery of the New World and the place and role to be given to more “rationalistic” approaches to the Christian faith in the (early) modern period. The case studies presented here illustrate that the label can receive many different meanings. Among these are the characterisation of the others as strangers or barbarians and the accusation of committing idolatry, but also all sorts of insinuations or claims of immoral behaviour and more outlandish ones that associate these “pagan” others with demonic schemes. The last two contributions have less to do with “fighting” and more with “imagining” paganism, though these two aspects overlap as is shown in several of the essays; hence the choice for “Imagining Paganism” in the general title.


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Barbarian or Greek?
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ISBN: 9789004306257 9789004306240 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018

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In her book 'Barbarian or Greek?: The Charge of Barbarism and Early Christian Apologetics', Stamenka Antonova examines different aspects of the charge of barbarism in the Greek and Latin Christian apologetic texts (2-4th centuries) and the various responses to it by the early Christians. The author demonstrates that the charge of barbarism encompasses a broad range of meanings, such as low social class, inadequate education, immorality, criminal activity, political treason, as well as foreign ethnicity and language. In addition to contextualizing the charge of barbarism in ancient rhetorical practices, the author also applies literary criticism and post-colonial theory to shed light on the concept of the barbarian as an ideological-rhetorical tool for othering, marginalization and persecution in the Roman Empire.


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Les polémiques religieuses du Ier au IVe siècle de notre ère : hommage à Bernard Pouderon
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ISBN: 9782701022772 2701022770 Year: 2019 Volume: 128 Publisher: Paris: Beauchesne,

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Cet ouvrage en hommage à Bernard Pouderon rassemble vingt-quatre contributions qui éclairent d'un jour nouveau le rôle des polémiques religieuses du Ier au IVe siècle de notre ère. Il illustre la variété des approches et l'importance des discussions scientifiques menées par des chercheurs de divers pays. Divisé en quatre chapitres, il s'organise autour de quatre questions : quel rôle jouent les origines pour les courants religieux de l'Antiquité ? Jusqu'où vont l'apologétique juive et les polémiques antijuives ? Quels sont les enjeux des controverses entre auteurs chrétiens et païens ? Quels sont la teneur et la visée des débats au sein du christianisme ? Textes juifs, païens et chrétiens, mais aussi gnostiques, manichéens ou orphiques sont ici convoqués et étudiés. De Flavius Josèphe à Grégoire de Nysse, les auteurs montrent comment l'histoire a été instrumentalisée, les citations scripturaires détournées, les sources altérées. Ce faisant, ils mettent en lumière la fécondité des polémiques dans cette période d'effervescence qui est déterminante pour comprendre les religions et leur histoire.


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Intolerance, polemics, and debate in antiquity : politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation
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ISBN: 9004410678 9789004410671 9789004411500 900441150X Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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In Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity scholars reflect on politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation in the ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and early-Islamic world. They enquire into the boundaries between debate, polemics, and intolerance, and address their manifestations in both philosophy and religion. This cross-cultural and inclusive approach shows that debate and polemics are not so different as often assumed, since polemics may also indicate that ultimate values are at stake. Polemics can also have a positive effect, stimulating further cultural development. Intolerance is more straightforwardly negative. Religious intolerance is often a justification for politics, but also elite rationalism can become totalitarian. The volume also highlights the importance of the fluency of minorities in the dominant discourses and of their ability to develop contrapuntal lines of thought within a common cultural discourse.

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