Étvdes

Étvdes is a Revue Mensuel the French Catholique of contemporary culture rested by the fathers Jésuites in 1856. 150 years after its creation, Étvdes account today strongest pulling in the category of the cultural reviews general practitioners in France, with a monthly diffusion of 15.000 specimens and more than 11.000 paying subscribers (the strongest number of subscribers of France to a review). The review is directed by Jesuits since its origins. Current editor association is the Father Pierre de Charentenay who succeeded the Father Henri Madelin.

History

Created by the Father Ivan Gagarin for the apostolate near the Russian thanks to theological studies, Étvdes was quickly taken again by the French Jesuits for a broader objective, in spite of the protests of its founder.

The Review with difficulty crossed the periods disturbed of the end of the 19th century with two suppressions, one six months at the time of the Commune, the other eight years after the Laws of expulsion of 1880. Prohibited word in the social domains and policies, it tackled subjects philosophical, literary, cultural, theological. It evoked the missions of the Church in China or with Madagascar and it abundantly treated science and of technique.

Attached a long time, like all the Church, with the conservation of the established order and of an social order where the Church and its values took the step on the ideas of freedom included/understood like subversive, it fought step by step against the Republic, so much so that its director, the Father of Scorraille, was cantilever after the rallying of the Church of France to the Republic in 1891.

From 1910, the father Leonce de Grandmaison, director of the review, associates a supplement to him which became an independent review thereafter: the Searchs for religious science (RSR), specifically devoted to the religious subjects, and in which many outstanding authors wrote, like Hans the USSR von Balthasar, Michel de Certeau, Jean Daniélou, Gaston Fessard, Henri de Lubac or Karl Rahner.

Étvdes continued its combat for the long period of tension which followed 1905. Between the two wars, the Agreements of Lateran between the the Vatican and the Italian State will have an alleviating effect on the relations with the French State. Étvdes is pointed out since 1930 (Volume 4, p. 92), by proposing the name of “European Union” to the projects of Aristide Briand to organize a “solidarity of political life and economic interests” between European nations.

Removed again during the Second world war, the Review evolves with leaving this conflict to a larger opening in the world. A long time semi-monthly, it becomes monthly. It opens to the social Christians and to the young people of the movements of catholic Action, with the psychoanalytical currents, to the working priests, all the culture in its diversity, including the literature, the cinema, the theater. It accommodates with much empathy the Council of the Vatican II, which it follows of very near by regular chronicles. The post-conciliar years are sometimes difficult, as well because of the debates in progress as of the weakening of the assistantship.

In 1974, the 32e general Congrégation of the Society of Jesus brings a new reflection on the faith which must be translated into work for justice. The Review is deeply marked by it like all its successive directors, so much so that its image is not any more that of the catholic intransigence of the 19th century, but that of a Catholicism in open and positive dialog with the world.

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Étvdes followed all the evolutions and the challenges of the Catholic church to France during, and always holds an important place in the catholic intellectual life. But its audience largely exceeds the only catholic world, and the Review takes part in all the great public debates. The review profits from the support of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, of the Association for the defense of the French thought and the National center of the Book.

Étvdes treats constant debates on freedom and the truth, on the place of the religion in the companies, the role of the faith in his report/ratio with the culture. She wants to be a word of monk and Christians in the line of the spirituality of the Society of Jesus. She applies thus to " to scan the life of the world for understanding the acutest possible".

The place of Étvdes in the public debate is largely recognized, even if its mark of “religious review” closed a time some doors to him. But the recognition on behalf of the Republic is now acquired to him.

Jesuits and the Review

An editorial board regularly meets under the direction it editor association to discuss numbers in progress and projects of articles. A network of advisers Jesuits and not Jesuits collaborate regularly. A theological Committee was made up in 2004 to ensure a follow-up in this field.

Their work takes as a starting point the spirituality ignatienne, a spirituality which at the same time consists in taking into account diversity world, to carry out an understanding in a complex reality, and finally to make decisions for the action. Étvdes takes part in the educational mission to the full extent of the Society of Jesus. If the Jesuits do not have a university in France (apart from their own places of formation), they have reviews, of which Étvdes .

Its offices initially were with Paris, with Lyon between 1871 and 1888, then again in Paris. The house of 15, rue Monsieur was built for the Review in 1891. The laic ones were integrated little by little. They moved with 14, rue d'Assas in 1984 to gather with other reviews Jesuits in only one administration, Assas-Editions at the time, then the SER (Company of the Editions of Review) in partnership with Bayard Presse as from the year 2000.

Etvdes in some figures

Monthly review of 144 pages, 11 numbers per annum, 404 volumes published to date.

Each number includes/understands a leading article, then eight Leitartikeces on different, followed subjects chronicles of theater, cinema, exposures, television, and a review of the books of forty works.

Constant pulling during the year 2005: 15.000 specimens

Subscribers: 11.000, including 20% abroad

Profile of the subscribers (source inquires subscribed July 2000)

CSP + and ex-CSP +: 87% (branches of industry: education, health, administration, industry)
higher Level of studies: 86%

The subscribers of Étvdes , who are characterized by a on-representation from the executives and a strong level from studies (many academics), are also of large readers (84% often read other newspapers and reviews) and music lovers (68% often listen some). It should be noted that more half of them are engaged in one or more associations (of type cultural and artistic, 32%; and humanitarian, 29%).

External bonds

the site of the review '' Étvdes ''
the site of the review '' Recherches of religious science '' (RSR)

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