The Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI) laboratory is organizing a symposium on "Original sin. Anthropologie et histoire politique (XVIIIe-XXe siècles)". It will be held in building 5 supérieur, rooms 510/511, on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus.
About the symposium
Is original sin an object of study for historians? This is doubtful, given the bibliography, which is dominated by works by theologians and philosophers alike. And yet, it is a key dogma of Christianity that is of interest to the historian: not only is a good part of sacramental practice based on it, but it also brings into play a conception of humanity from which derives a conception of society and the social order, of evil, suffering and freedom. The coincidence between the slow exhaustion of its socially-recognized significance and the advent of a society - of opinions - cannot be reduced to the caricatural process of erasing a "legend". Is original sin an object of religious anthropology and political history? The question remains to be answered.
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Contacts: Frederic Meyer and Sylvain Milbach
