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Jean Baubérot (born 26 July 1941 in
Châteauponsac Châteauponsac (; ), also known locally as Château Lorraine, is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. Geography The river Semme flows westward to the north of the commune, then forms part ...
, Haute-Vienne), is a French
historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
and sociologist specializing in sociology of religions. He is the founder of the sociology of secularism. After holding the chair of "History and Sociology of Protestantism" (1978–1990), he held the chair of "History and Sociology of secularism "(since 1991) at the
École pratique des hautes études The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...
, where he was the honorary president. He wrote twenty books, including a historical novel. He is coauthor of the ''Déclaration internationale sur la laïcité,'' signed by 250 scholars from 30 countries.


Biography

Baubérot is the son of teachers. He attended his secondary education at the Lycée Gay-Lussac in Limoges. At the
Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...
, he was awarded doctor for history (under the direction of Jean-Marie Mayeur) for letters and human sciences, he graduated from the
École pratique des hautes études The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...
(EPHE). He started as technical contributor at the EPHE in 1967, then he became research assistant in 1971, then director of studies in 1978. He chaired the Section of Religious Sciences between 1986 and 1994. He was appointed Chairman of the School in 1999. He founded in 1995 and directed in 2001 the Group of Sociology of religion and secularism (EPHE-CNRS). Between 1997 and 1998, he was appointed technical adviser to the cabinet of
Ségolène Royal Marie-Ségolène Royal (; born 22 September 1953) is a French politician who was the Socialist Party candidate for the Presidency of France in the 2007 election. Royal was president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council from 2004 to 201 ...
. He was the sole member of the Stasi Commission to have abstained on the vote of the report which led to the development of the
French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools The French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools bans wearing conspicuous religious symbols in French public (e.g., government-operated) primary and secondary schools. The law is an amendment to the French Code of Educatio ...
. He is also a member of the Société internationale de sociologie de la religion (SISR) and chaired the Ernest Renan society in 1995 and 1996. Baubérot was awarded a
Knight A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...
in France's
Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...


Bibliography

* ''Un christianisme profane ?'' Royaume de Dieu, socialisme et modernité culturelle dans le périodique « chrétien-social » L'avant-garde (1899–1911), Paris, Presses universitaires de France (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences religieuses), 1978. * ''La laïcité quel héritage ?'' De 1789 à nos jours, Genève, Labor and Fides ed., 1990. * ''Vers un nouveau pacte laïque ?'', Paris, Seuil ed., 1990. * ''Pluralisme et minorités religieuses'' (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences religieuses), 1991 (direction). * ''Religions et laïcité dans l'Europe des douze'', Paris, Syros ed., 1994. * La morale laïque contre l'ordre moral'', Paris, Seuil, 1997.Review
* ''Histoire du protestantisme'', Paris, PUF (Que sais-je ?), fifth edition, 1998. * ''Une haine oubliée''. L'antiprotestantisme avant le « pacte laïque » (1870–1905), with Valentine Zuber, Paris, Albin Michel (Sciences des religions), 2000. * ''Religion, modernité et culture au Royaume-Uni et en France'', 1800–1914, with Séverine Mathieu, Paris, Seuil (Points Histoire), 2002. * ''La Laïcité à l'épreuve''. Religions et Libertés dans le monde (collective work under the direction of Jean Baubérot),
Encyclopædia Universalis The ''Encyclopædia Universalis'' is a French-language general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company. The articles of the ''Encyclopædia Universalis'' are aimed at educated adult readers, and writt ...
, 2004. * ''Le voile que cache-t-il ?'', with Dounia Bouzar and Jacqueline Costa-Lascoux, L'Atelier, 2004. * ''Laïcité 1905-2005'', entre passion et raison, Seuil, 2004. * ''De la séparation des Églises et de l'État à l'avenir de la laïcité'', with
Michel Wieviorka Michel Wieviorka (born 23 August 1946, Paris) is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the theory of social change. He was the 16th president of International Sociological Association (200 ...
, Aube ed., 2005. * ''Faut-il réviser la loi de 1905 ?'', with Jean-Paul Scot, Christian Delacampagne, Henri Pena-Ruiz and
René Rémond René Rémond (; 30 September 1918 – 14 April 2007) was a French historian, political scientist and political economist. Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques (JEC France in 1943) and a ...
, Paris, PUF, 2005. * ''
Émile Combes Émile Justin Louis Combes (; 6 September 183525 May 1921) was a French statesman and freemason who led the Bloc des gauches's cabinet from June 1902 to January 1905. Career Émile Combes was born in Roquecourbe, Tarn. He studied for the pri ...
et la princesse carmélite'' : Improbable amour, roman, Aube ed., 2005. * ''L'intégrisme républicain contre la laïcité'', Aube ed., 2006. * ''Histoire de la laïcité en France'', Paris, PUF (Que sais-je ?), fourth edition, 2007. * ''Les Laïcités dans le monde'', Paris, PUF (Que sais-je?), 2007 * ''Petite histoire du christianisme'', Paris, Librio, 2008 * ''Relations églises et autorités outre-mer de 1945 à nos jours'' (collective work under the direction of Jean Baubérot), Indes Savantes ed., 2008. * ''La laïcité expliquée à Nicolas Sarkozy et à ceux qui écrivent ses discours'', Paris, Albin Michel, 2008 *''Une laïcité interculturelle. Le Québec avenir de la France?'', La Tour d'Aigle, L'Aube, 2008 *''Sacrée médecine : Histoire et devenir d'un sanctuaire de la Raison'', with Raphaël Liogier, Paris, Entrelacs, 2011. *''Laïcités sans frontières'', with Micheline Milot, Seuil, 2011. *''La laïcité falsifiée'', Paris, Éditions La Découverte, coll. « Cahiers libres », 2012, reissue with a new afterworld, 2014 *''Une si vive révolte'', preface Edwy Plenel, Éditions de l'Atelier, autobiography, 2014. *''Laïcité, laïcités. Reconfigurations et nouveaux défis (Afrique, Amériques, Europe, Japon, Pays arabes''),with M. Milot and Ph. Portier, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2014. *''Comment parler de la laïcité aux enfants'', with Rokhaya Diallo, Éd Le Baron Perché, 2015 *''Les sept laïcités françaises. Le modèle français de laïcité n'existe pas'', Paris, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2015 () *''Histoire des Protestants. Une Minorité en France (XVIe-XXIe Siècle)'', avec Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard, Paris,  Ellipses Marketing, 2016 *''Petit Manuel pour une laïcité apaisée à l'usage des profs, des élèves et de leurs parents'', withl "Le Cercle des Enseigants.e.s Laïques", Paris, la Découverte, 2016. *''Parlons laïcité en trente questions'', with M. Milot, La Documentation française, Paris, 2017. *''La loi de 1905 n'aura pas lieu'', volume 1, ''L'impossible loi de liberté (1902-1905)'', Paris, Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2019 *''La Sécularisation en question. Religions et laïcités au prisme des sciences sociales'', with Ph. Portier and J.-P. Willaime, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019.. * Participation in collective works: * "''The Two Thresholds of Laïcization''", in Bhargava Rajeev (ed.), ''Secularism and its critics'',  New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 94-136. * "''Laïcism''", in Ritzer George (ed.), ''The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociologie'', Volume V, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2007, p. 2528-2533. * "''Current Issue in France''", Hargreaves Alec (ed.), ''Politics and Religion in France and the United States'',New-York, Lexington Books, 2007, p. 157-170. * "''The Evolution of Secularism in France: Between Two Civil Religions''", in Cady Linell -Sharkman Hurd Elizabeth (ed.), ''Comparative Secularism in a Global Age'', New-York, Palgrave macmillan, 2010. * "''Laicity''", in Berenson Edward (ed.), ''The French Republic, history, values, debates'', New-York, Cornell University Press, 2011, p. 125-137. * "''The Evolution of French Secularism''" in Ghosh Ranjan, ''Making Sense of the Secular'', Routledge, 2013, p. 44-55. * "''French Laïcité : What Does It Stand for?"'' (A Conversation with Sarath Fainberg)" and "Laïcité and Freedom of Conscience in Pluricultural France" in Berlinerblau Jacques (ed.), ''Secularism on the Edge. Rethinking Church-State Relations in the United States, France, and Israel,''  New-York, Palgrave macmillan, 2014, p. 85-94 and 103-112.


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1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State The 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and State (French: ) was passed by the Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1905. Enacted during the Third Republic, it established state secularism in France. France was then governed by the '' ...


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Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
* Legion of Honour Museum * List of Legion of Honour recipients by name (B) *
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