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Titre Pour une comparaison anticléricalisme européen/anticléricalisme chinois
Auteur Jean Baubérot
Mir@bel Revue Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident
Numéro no 24, 2002 L'anticléricalisme en Chine
Rubrique / Thématique
III. Regard extérieur
Page 167-178
Résumé anglais For a comparison between European and Chinese anticlericalisms The comparative method used in this volume, i.e. applying the European notion of anticlericalism to a Chinese context, is justified by actual similarities. More fundamentally, it is also justified by the irrelevance of any radical opposition between European and Chinese ways of constructing religion. In both cases, the definition and role of religion within society has been the subject of on-going debate, generating a variety of anticlericalisms as by-products. The history of this debate in Europe and its evolution through time and space allows to differentiate between several typological case studies, for instance between Catholic and Protestant countries. Many of these case studies have equivalents at one point or another of Chinese history. Analogies appear when scrutinising the liberal view of religion as a separate sphere within society, the relationship between religion and predominant morality, the inclusion of religion within the official bureaucracy or the links between anticlericalism and anti-religion. In conclusion, there may well be a universal typology of anticlericalisms, within which both European and Chinese cases would find their specific place.
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