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Revue De L'histoire Des Religions, 3 Revue de l’histoire des religions 3 | 2016 Varia Édition électronique URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rhr/8560 DOI : 10.4000/rhr.8560 ISSN : 2105-2573 Éditeur Armand Colin Édition imprimée Date de publication : 1 septembre 2016 ISBN : 978-2-200-93061-5 ISSN : 0035-1423 Référence électronique Revue de l’histoire des religions, 3 | 2016 [En ligne], mis en ligne le 01 septembre 2019, consulté le 09 octobre 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rhr/8560 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/rhr.8560 Ce document a été généré automatiquement le 9 octobre 2020. Tous droits réservés 1 SOMMAIRE Les sciences religieuses au défi du comparatisme : notes critiques Viviane Comerro de Prémare et Alain Rauwel Le bien et le mal dans les psychostasies égyptienne et chrétienne Hanane Gaber L’énigme d’inversion dans la littérature médiévale scandinave Pierre-Brice Stahl Les « petits carnets » de Madame de Maintenon : grandeur de la direction spirituelle (1688‑1709) Lars Nørgaard et Hugues Pasquier Le mythe du déluge de l’Inde ancienne et les théories des origines entre 1829 et 1872 Guillaume Ducœur Comptes rendus Torah. Deutéronome et Pentateuque dans son ensemble (La Bibliothèque de Qumrân 3a), édition et traduction des manuscrits hébreux, araméens et grecs sous la direction de Katell BERTHELOT, Michaël LANGLOIS et Thierry LEGRAND Paris Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013 Kristin De Troyer Vision que vit Isaïe. Traduction du texte du prophète Isaïe selon la Septante de Alain LE BOULLUEC et Philippe LE MOIGNE, Index littéraire des noms propres et glossaire de Philippe LE MOIGNE Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf (« La Bible d’Alexandrie »), 2014 Anne-Catherine Baudoin Bernard ECK, La mort rouge. Homicide, guerre et souillure en Grèce ancienne Paris, Les Belles Lettres (« Collection d’Études Anciennes – Série grecque », 145), 2012 Philippe Borgeaud José FERNÁNDEZ UBIÑA, Alberto J. QUIROGA PUERTAS, Purificación UBRIC RABANEDA (coords.), La Iglesia como sistema de dominación en la Antigüedad Tardía Granada, Editorial Universidad de Granada, (« Historia »), 2015 Sylvain Destephen Pierre-Henry DE BRUYN, Le taoïsme. Chemins de découverte Paris, CNRS Éditions (« Biblis »), 2014 Kyong-Kon Kim Le Coran, nouvelles approches, sous la direction de Mehdi AZAIEZ, avec la collaboration de Sabrina MERVIN Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2013 Mathieu Terrier Islam : identité et altérité. 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Un seuil de la modernité Paris, Les Belles Lettres (« L’âne d’or »), 2014 Antoine Calvet Nicolas BALZAMO, Les Miracles dans la France du XVIe siècle. Métamorphoses du surnaturel Paris, Les Belles Lettres (« Le miroir des humanistes », 14), 2014 Marie Lezowski Véronique FERRER, Exercices de l’âme fidèle. La littérature de piété en prose dans le milieu réformé francophone (1524‑1685) Genève, Droz, (« Travaux d’Humanisme et de Renaissance », 524), 2014 Audrey Duru Pierre DE BÉRULLE, Œuvres complètes, t. 12. Correspondance [IV]. Lettres (616‑848), texte établi et annoté par Blandine DELAHAYE Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf (« Oratoire de Jésus »), 2015 Mariel Mazzocco Jan ASSMANN, Religio Duplex. Comment les Lumières ont réinventé la religion des Égyptiens, traduit de l’allemand par Jean-Marc TÉTAZ Paris, Aubier (« Collection Historique »), 2013 Laurent Coulon Chantal VERDEIL (dir.), Missions chrétiennes en terre d’islam. Moyen-Orient, Afrique du Nord (XVIIe-XXe siècle). 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Vzpomínky opata břevnovského kláštera. K vydání připravila Marie JIRÁSKOVÁ [Douze stations. Souvenirs de l’Abbé du monastère de Břevnov, édition préparée par Marie JIRÁSKOVÁ, 1re éd. 1992] Praha, Torst, 2013 Nicolas Richard Revue de l’histoire des religions, 3 | 2016 3 Les sciences religieuses au défi du comparatisme : notes critiques Religious Science and the Challenge of the Comparative Approach : Critical Notes Viviane Comerro de Prémare et Alain Rauwel NOTE DE L’ÉDITEUR À propos de : Dionigi ALBERA et Katell BERTHELOT (dir.), Dieu, une enquête. Judaïsme, christianisme, islam, ce qui les distingue, ce qui les rapproche, Paris, Flammarion, 2013, 1036 p.-[32 p. de pl.], ISBN : 978‑2-08‑121448‑4. – Cyrille MICHON et Denis MOREAU (dir.), Dictionnaire des monothéismes, Paris, Seuil, 2013, 701 p., ISBN : 978‑2-02‑087147‑1. – Guy G. STROUMSA, The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015 (« Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions »), 225 p., ISBN : 978‑0-19‑873886‑2. Les observations portant sur l’Enquête reviennent pour l’essentiel à Viviane Comerro de Prémare, celles relatives au Dictionnaire étant d’Alain Rauwel. 1 Mener l’enquête sur Dieu : on conçoit qu’il n’ait pas fallu moins de mille pages pour une telle entreprise, qui décrit et compare les pratiques et les représentations religieuses des juifs, des chrétiens et des musulmans. Elle a été confiée à des historiens et à des anthropologues des religions, sous la direction d’une historienne du judaïsme antique et d’un ethnologue des religions monothéistes. Dans le même temps, un groupe de savants a eu l’idée d’offrir au grand public cultivé, sous un format commode, non un énième catalogue de notules factuelles sur les grandes figures et les hauts faits de l’histoire dite religieuse, mais un dictionnaire au sens noble, composé d’articles point trop contraints et consacrés à des concepts fondamentaux. Cela ne signifie d’ailleurs pas que les noms propres soient absents de la liste des entrées, mais le petit nombre de ceux qui ont été retenus, à l’exception d’un lieu (Jérusalem), correspond à ce que les auteurs désignent heureusement comme des « personnages conceptuels » : Abraham, Moïse, Jésus, Paul, Muhammad ne sont pas des acteurs éphémères apparus un moment sur le théâtre sacré, ils sont des fantômes qui hantent sans trêve les sanctuaires. Revue de l’histoire des religions, 3 | 2016 4 Comme tels, ils sont aussi essentiels que les mots dieu, révélation, foi, dogme ou église à la compréhension de l’institutionnalisation des faits de croyance. Le comparatisme : nécessité et apories 2 Les deux volumes ont été confrontés d’emblée à la question capitale du comparatisme. Dieu : une enquête en adopte résolument la perspective, la revendique même, pour dépasser méthodologiquement l’étroitesse d’une démarche historiciste jugée trop contextualisante, mais aussi, sans le dire explicitement, l’exclusivisme théologique de chacun des monothéismes. Le principe retenu est donc le pari audacieux de confier à chaque auteur le traitement commun des trois religions, revenant à chacun de trouver le point d’équilibre entre continuité et rupture, ressemblances et spécificités. Dans le Dictionnaire des monothéismes, au contraire, les rédacteurs ont démissionné face au défi du comparatisme. « Judaïsme, christianisme, islam », lit-on en sous-titre. Et chaque article de présenter, quand le thème s’y prête, son paragraphe « judaïsme », son paragraphe « christianisme » et son paragraphe « islam »… Alors que les différences structurelles comme les points de convergence sautent aux yeux du lecteur, même non spécialiste, aucune présentation véritablement comparée n’a été tentée, nulle part. Il en allait pourtant de la qualification de l’ouvrage. Dumézil l’a dit, « le comparatisme est la méthode expérimentale des sciences humaines ». Une somme qui envisage des mondes et des milieux divers mais se contente d’en juxtaposer les analyses honore- t‑elle pleinement le contrat de scientificité ? Que penser de trois articles « Bible » successifs ? Que penser, plus encore, d’un Dictionnaire des monothéismes qui écarte l’indispensable article « Monothéisme » et, à l’entrée « Unicité de Dieu », n’examine la question que pour l’islam ? 3 Sur ce point, c’est le choix inverse qui a prévalu dans le chapitre de Dieu : une enquête écrit par Christian Boudignon
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