Pour une sociologie transnationale de la laïcitédans l'ultramodernité contemporaine

La discussion critique, engagée avec mon ami Jean Baubérot (J. B.) à l'occasion de la publication en 2008 de mon ouvrage Le retour du religieux dans la sphère publique s'est surtout concentrée sur la leçon de laïcité qu'il a donnée à Nicolas Sarkorzy suite à ses discours à Rome et à Ryad relatifs à la religion (2008). Bien que le pamphlet de J. B. soit à mon sens plus un acte politique qu'un acte universitaire, il offre néanmoins les principaux éléments de ses analyses sur la laïcité, analyse..

Textures of the ternary feldspar in garnet-bearing felsic gneiss from the Mt. Riiser-Larsen in the Archean Napier Complex, East Antarctica and the synthetic experiment of the ternary feldspar

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The return of faith and reason to laïcité; Régis Debray and 'le fait religieux'

In 1985, Marcel Gauchet wrote of the ‘retour du religieux’ as an end to the social role of religion and the beginning of its privatisation. However, far from an indication of the withering of religion on the vine of modernity, the return of a religious discourse was resurrected by the democratisation of the ‘croyant’ in the mid-1980s. The ‘âge égalitaire’, coupled with the specificity of the ‘croyant’, created a platform on which to challenge the model of laïcité in contemporary France. This discourse sought to re-appropriate reason from the logic of secular objectivity and postmodern self-reliance, and re-signify it within a Catholic theological language of belief and faith. The transmission of religious ‘knowledge’ would also be seen to compete for intellectual equality with the forms and transmission of knowledge approved by laïcité in the republican school. Régis Debray's report to the Ministry of Education in 2002 on the teaching of the ‘fait religieux’ in French schools advances this debate by defending the introduction of the study of religion in school from the perspectives of theological rigour, the indivisibility of knowledge (the coexistence of ‘témoin’ and ‘savant’), and the inextricable links between faith and reason in their production of knowledge with a valid claim for public consumption

Determining Gravitational Masses of Galaxy Clusters With (1)Virial Equilibrium And (2)Arc-like Images

The mass derived from gravitational lensing reflects the total mass contained in the lensing system, independent of the specific matter contents and states. A comparison of the dynamical masses from hydrostatic equilibrium with the gravitational masses from arc-like images of background galaxies is made for four clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshits. It is found that virial analysis has underestimated the total cluster masses (from lensing) by a factor of $3\sim6$ within a radius of $\sim0.3$ Mpc $h_{50}^{-1}$ around the cluster centers, indicating that clusters of galaxies might not be regarded as the well relaxed virialized systems. The increase of the total cluster masses obtained from lensing leads to the decrease of the baryon fractions of clusters of galaxies, which provides a crue for solving the ``$\Omega_0$ disprepancy puzzle" in cosmology.Comment: 11 pages plus 1 Table. LATEX style, submitted to ApJ, BAO-BGGC-940