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Bricolage vaut-il dissémination? Quelques réflexions sur l’opérationnalité sociologique d’une métaphore problématique

Danièle Hervieu-Léger

l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Centre d’Etudes Interdisciplinaires des Faits Religieux, hervieu{at}ehess.fr

English

The author develops a reflection on the significance acquired by the notion of "bricolage" (tinkering) - applied in this instance to individual belief systems - in the contemporary sociology of religion and religious "modernity";. The author does not go along with a certain atomization of belief in general, increasingly associated with "high modernity";, and linked to a supposed absence of pre-constraints on bricolage. Instead, she puts forward the idea of the existence of specific and real constraints on bricolage in contemporary Western societies. The topics of health care, science and the afterlife are considered workshops for this style of bricolage, and are explored as sources of illustration for these hypotheses.

French

Láuteure développe une réflexion sur la place prise par la notion de "bricolage"- appliquée aux croyances des individus- dans la sociologie contemporaine de la modernité religieuse. Contre une atomisation du champ du croire en haute modernité, liée à l'absence de pré-contrainte au bricolage, il sera avancé l'existence de contraintes spécifiques mais bien réelles du bricolage contemporain dans les sociétés occidentales. Laboratoire de ces bricolages, les champs de la santé, la science et de l'après-mort seront explorés pour illuster ces hypothèses.

Key Words: afterlife • beliefs • bricolage • constraints • healing • health • identity • individualization • modernity • sciences • spiritual search

Social Compass, Vol. 52, No. 3, 295-308 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0037768605058427


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