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‪Apocalyptic revolts led by ‘Alid groups, named ‪‪ghulāt‪‪ by Muslim heresiographers, had a deep impact on the first three centuries of Islam. However, depictions of these groups found in late 3‪‪rd‪‪/9‪‪th‪‪ century heresiographies erase this apocalyptic dimension. Through a critical study of the representation of ‘Alid groups in early Muslim heresiography, this article therefore approaches heresiography as the location of a rewriting process of early Islamic memory.‪

‪The Taoist tradition of Highest Clarity, or Shangqing, was born in the fourth century on Maoshan from a series of teachings revealed to a young visionary named Yang Xi. Different hypotheses have been developed about the nature of these visions: possession, mediumism or dreaming. But none of these proposals truly captures the visionary nature of the phenomenon. This paper attempts to better define Shangqing visions, especially with regard to revelations, by proposing a typology of theophanic and evocative visions.‪

‪Several decades before Max Weber's thesis (‪‪The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism‪‪), the economist Adolphe Blanqui, mutatis mutandis, contributes to a reflection that runs through the entire 19‪‪th‪‪ century, according to which liberal economics and Protestant morality are the two sources of prosperity. The analysis, carried out according to an approach that is not very popular in economic history and a corpus that is not very familiar to the field of religious sciences, is focused on the correlation between religious intolerance (a sensitive value for Protestants, of whom Blanqui, whose case is discussed here, is a critical admirer), and economic intolerance (protectionism). Blanqui proposes a way out of this impasse by means of moral instruction within the framework of intimacy and industry.‪

‪Among the figures evoked during the centenary of the Great War, military chaplains had a reduced but visible place as the subject of some conferences, exhibitions and broadcasts. A century after the conflict, what were the reasons for this apparent resurgence of interest in these chaplains, who manifested a religious presence in the army and on the battlefields? Between history and memory, their renewed evocation says more about our present world than about the commemorated past or about their singular ministry: the confrontation between religion and war, confessional pluralism and tolerance, secularism presented as a framework of religious freedom, or even representations of the sacred union perceived as a model for today's society.‪

‪The ‪‪Dictionnaire Jésus ‪‪published under the auspices of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem presents, alongside relevant articles, many entries that are problematic. The authors are in fact motivated by the apologetic desire to show the continuity that might exist between the historical Jesus and the Savior confessed by the Churches. This leads them to postulate gratuitously the early constitution of a stabilized memory and to multiply anachronisms. Such difficulty in restoring the historical dimension of religious phenomena raises the question of the scientificity of their undertaking.‪