Bruno Étienne

Bruno Étienne

Bruno Étienne (born in 1937 in La Tronche, Isère, died in Aix-en-Provence on 4 March 2009 after a cancer)[1] was a French sociologist, freemason[2] and a political analyst. He was a specialist of Algeria, Islam and anthropology of the religious and masonic fact.

He graduated in Arabic-language and political sciences at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and the University of Tunis. Bruno Étienne was a researcher in Cairo and was a teacher at the ENA-Algiers, at the Law Faculty of Algiers and the universities of Casablanca and Marmara. He was also director of researches at the CNRS.

Teacher at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, he was the founder and was director until 2006 of the Observatoire du religieux. Bruno Étienne was also member of the Institut universitaire de France.

Bruno Étienne was the founder of a school of researchers in Aix-en-Provence including Raphaël Liogier, Jocelyne Cesari and Frank Fregosi. Gilles Kepel was also under his influence.

He was member of the Grand Orient de France[3] and was a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

Bibliography

By Bruno Étienne

References

  1. "Bruno Etienne Sociologue, spécialiste des religions" (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  2. La spiritualité maçonnique : Pour redonner du sens à la vie (Bruno Etienne, ed. Dervy, 2006)
  3. ""Une franc-maçonnerie ravagée par la démagogie profane", by Bruno Étienne" (in French). Le Monde. Archived from the original on June 14, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-13.

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