| Titre | GRANDE GUERRE ET DIPLOMATIE HUMANITAIRE. LA MISSION CATHOLIQUE SUISSE EN FAVEUR DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE (1914-1918) | |
|---|---|---|
| Auteur | Frédéric Yerly | |
 |
Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 58, avril-juin 1998 | |
| Page | 13-28 | |
| Résumé anglais | Great War and Humanitarian Diplomacy: the Swiss Catholic Mission for War Prisoners (1914-1918), Frédéric Yerly. "War culture": behind this newly forged concept are hidden socio-cultural habits and practices that went through the First World War from beginning to end. A new and vast historiographic field for research is opening up today in which collective representations as well as each person's imagination get the lion's share. An extraordinary situation demands extraordinary practices and behavior. Spiritual and religious needs born out of contact with fire or tests of captivity haven't stopped gaining in importance and intensity. This has pleased churches and religious charity works suffering from de-Christianization and exclusion in now largely secularized public spaces. Either temporary or lasting beyond the end of hostilities, religious needs were expressed by the soldiers, of course, but also by another category, poorly known because less studied until today: war prisoners. Our study, based on Catholic charity archives, deals with the religious practices and needs during prisoners' captivity. These charities, with the agreement of the opponents and from the beginning of the war, visited the detention camps regularly. The Catholic Mission for war prisoners was at the twisting and turning interface of the humanitarian cause and politics. It was the stakes of a curious and complex diplomatic ballet in which the fighting states' governments, the non-governmental charities, and the Vatican, supported by the local hierarchies via the church works, crisscrossed. | |
| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=VING_P1998_58N1_0013 |
