Interdisciplinary center of study of the religions and secularity

Extremely of more than sixty high level researchers, the interdisciplinary Center of study of the religions and secularity (CIERL) of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles is approved by the Fonds national of the scientific research like one of the ten reference laboratories in Social sciences within the French Communauté of Belgium.

It continues since 2003 the activities of the ex-Institute of Study of the religions and secularity, directed until this date by Herve Hasquin. It counts among its most famous researchers Anne Morelli, Herve Hasquin, Lambros Couloubaritsis, Baudouin Decharneux, Luc Nefontaine, Michele Broze, Alain Dierkens, Benoît Beyer de Ryke, Guillaume Dye, Jacques Marx, Sabrina Inowlocki or Jean-Philippe Schreiber, his current director.

It publishes an scientific magazine recognized on the international plan ( Problèmes of history of the religions ) and the collection Spiritualités and thoughts free with the Editions of the University of Brussels.

History

At the origins of the CIERL, it there with the outstanding figure of Eugene Goblet d' Alviella (1846-1925), pioneer of the scientific history of the religions, which it taught with the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles of 1884 to 1914. Holder of the pulpit of History of the religions, one of the first in the world, after Holland in 1877, but before the practical School of the high studies of Paris, in 1886, the author of the Migration of the Symbols (1891) conceived the Histoire of the religions like a critical and comparative, objective science in his methods, free examinist in his spirit.

These orientations were these even as chose to print in 1965 with their lesson the founders - Charles Delvoye, François Masai and Jean Préaux - Institute of history of the Christianity, annexed to the Faculty of philosophy and letters of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles. The Institute intended from the start propose with its listeners a released approach of any denominational apriorism, which constitutes today still its specificity.

In 1985, under the impulse of the professor Herve Hasquin, the old Institute considerably widened the field of its concerns while being transformed into Institute of study of the religions and of secularity and was given for objective the scientific study of the religious phenomenon in all its dimensions and its relationship to the free thought. The Institute moreover was interested in the history of the universal Franc-maçonnerie, through the activities of a named specific pulpit of teaching Chaire Theodore Verhaegen, in homage to the founder of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles. It is, in October 2003, become the interdisciplinary Center of study of the religions and the secularity, which has the role to join together the whole of the researchers who, to the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles, are interested in the Sciences of the religions and the freethinking. It does it from the multi-field point of view, gathering philologists, historians, philosophers, historians of art, ethnologists…

Objectives

The CIERL aims at the scientific study and nonapologetic religious phenomenon in all its dimensions - ideological, conceptual, historical, social, political - and in its relationship to the manifestations of the free thought. It covers the study of the religious phenomena and spiritualities, in their contemporary expressions as long as old, intellectual as long as popular - since the ancient polytheisms, the religions known as primitive, the great religions monotheists and the popular devotions, until the beliefs of the New Age . L integrates, very as much as the field of the Sciences of the religions, the various forms of free thoughts and the Franc-maçonnerie.

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