Alain Vivien

Sects

Jonathan Laurence, Justin Vaïsse

Integrating Islam Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France

Shmuel Trigano

The Democratic Ideal Challenged by the Shoah

Shmuel Trigano

Monotheism is a Form of Humanism

Xavier Ternisien

State and Religions

Guy G. Stroumsa

The End of Sacrifice Religious Changes in Late Antiquity

Manès Sperber

Being Jewish

A non-practicing Jew, Manès Sperber learned to read the Bible at the age of three and continued to re-read it until the end of his life. Neither religious, nor a militant Zionist, nor an aethiest, nor aligned with any cultural Judaism, he professes as his only faith a "religion of good memory." His is a Judaism lived as humanism and as an ethic, as a refusal of all idolatry, of exclusion of others, and a constant combat against hate of any kind. It is a profound attachment to the Israelite nation and a prudent attitude towards the State of Israel that Sperber illustrates in these brilliant essays prefaced by Elie Weisel, where analysis of Jewish thought and identity walk hand in hand with the eternal question: Why anti-semitism?

Daniel Sibony

Islam, Phobia, Guilt

The uneasy relations between Islam and the West, analysed by the psychoanalyst Daniel Sibony