Political anthropology – Anthropology of religion – Anthropology of Europe Conference Proceedings Article The team has conducted several ethnographic fieldwork in the Île-de-France and South regions in structures offering a specific offer of training in Islam... In this report, we present and analyze various social and religious profiles of imams that Muslims... Accueils de loisirs écocitoyen, Fédération Départementale des Foyers Ruraux des Alpes de Haute Provence, Plume Graphique: Sisteron, pp. 7-17. Rieres/Ramblas. Territorial research project promoted by Stalker, and organized by the Osservatorio Nomade which aims to find new models to interpret the territory of the metropolitan region of Barcelona on the basis of the direct experience of transdisciplinary collectives who reflect on the practice of roaming. Creating a website and writing a report, 38 p p. Google Neural Machine Translation Google Neural Machine Translation 2024-2028, ANR, “PredicMO – Grammars of Preaching: lexis, mapping, staging (Middle East, 19th-21st centuries)”, resp. Norig Neveu, Iremam, Aix-en-Provence.
International symposia – 2018, February, 21-22, With Franck Frégosi (CHERPA), colloque « L’imam dans la cité séculière. Légitimités, fonctions et engagements dans et hors de la mosquée » / The Imam in the Secular City. Legitimacy, Functions and Commitments in and outside the mosque, Sciences Po Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France, Program : <https://www.sciencespo-aix.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/programme-imams.pdf>. Symposium – 2019, July, 3-5, with Norig Neveu (Iremam) « De la fabrique des autorités religieuses en islam : qualifications, légitimations et ancrages en Europe, Moyen-Orient et au Maghreb » / On the Making of Religious Authorities in Islam: Qualifications, Legitimations and Roots in Europe, the Middle East and the Maghreb, Third conference of the Groupement d’intérêt scientifique Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, Paris, Program: <https://congres-gismomm.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Atelier_175.pdf>. – 2017, July, 8, With Sabrina Mervin (CNRS – CJB), « Enseignements islamiques en “terres d’islam” et en Europe : une mise en perspective » / “Islamic teachings in ‘Muslim lands’ and in Europe: a perspective”, Second conference of the Groupement d’intérêt scientifique Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, Paris, France, Program: <http://majlis-remomm.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/programme_print_29052017.pdf>. – 2010-2012, Seminar « Communauté(s) » / Communit(ies), with Karine Michel (Idemec), MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, Program: <http://calenda.org/208526>. • 2011, May, 13, With Karine Michel, « Communauté : entre filiation et affiliations » / “Community: between filiation and affiliations”, Communauté(s) / Communit(ies). • 2010, June, 18, With Karine Michel, « Doit-on jeter la communauté avec l’eau du bain ? » / “Should we throw out the community with the bathwater?”, Communauté(s) / Communit(ies). – 2002-2007, Organization of monthly doctoral workshops, Idemec, Aix-en-Provence, France. – 2003-2004, European ethnobotanical seminar, with Danielle Musset (Salagon) and Pierre Lieutaghi, Museum of Salagon, regional ethnopole of Haute-Provence <http://www.musee-de-salagon.com/la-recherche/le-seminaire.html>. • 2004, May, 13-15, « De l’ornemental au symbolique » / “From the decorative to symbolic”, The fifth seminar of European domain's ethnobotany, L’observatoire, Saint Michel l’Observatoire, France. • 2003, October, 16-18, « Les plantes alimentaires : du ramassage au jardin » : “The food plants: from collection to the garden”, The fourth seminar of European domain's ethnobotany, Prefectural Museum Ethnological of Salagon, Mane, France. • 2003, June, 12-14, « Méthodologie de l’enquête orale appliquée à l’ethnobotanique » / “Methodology of Oral history applied to ethnobotany”, The fourth seminar of European domain's ethnobotany, Vinadio, Italy. Since 2024 2016, The CNRS Scientific Interest Group of the “Middle East and Muslim Worlds”.Research interests and topics
Beliefs, organisations and ritual devices – European denominational affiliations – Communities – Institutions
France – Bulgaria – Institutionnalisation – Confessionnal Mobilisations Research Participation Programs
Researcher at IDEAS - Institut d'ethnologie et d'anthropologie sociale/Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology - UMR7307 - Aix-Marseille University - CNRS "Towards an anthropology of plurality".
Project N°9-2016, « Enseignement confessionnel musulman destiné aux enfants (5-11 ans) » / “Confessional Muslim Education for Children (5-11 Years)”, (2016-2018), Co-funding MI/BCC-MENESR, coordinated by Katia Boissevain and Marie-Laure Boursin (Idemec).Peer-Reviewed Article
Book Chapter
Other articles
2015, « Les dispositifs mimétiques comme mode de transmission religieuse. Le cas des institutions islamiques et de l’environnement familial en France » / “The mimetic devices as way of religious transmission within the Islamic institutions and within the family environment in France” (reviewed and accepted), Proceedings of the International Symposium of the Institute of Humanities and Society (ISHS), <http://geoarchi.uni-brest.fr/sitec/ishs/19-Les-dispositifs-mimetiques-comme-mode-de-transmission-religieuse..html>
Fieldwork report
2015, « Hatim et ilahi à Roudozem » / “Hatim and ilahi to Rudozem”, ANR Cirelanmed, posted December 2015,
Book review
2012, « Oubrou Tareq, Privot Michaël et Baylocq Cédric, Profession imâm : entretiens avec Michaël Privot et Cédric Baylocq, Paris, Albin Michel, 2009, 248 p. », In Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée [Online] URL: <https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/7277>, Unpublished lectures, posted July 06, 2012.Scientific reports
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2018b, February, with Katia Boissevain, final report of program, « Enseignement confessionnel musulman destiné aux enfants (5-11 ans) » / Muslim denominational education for children (5-11 years old), 178 p.
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2018a, April, with Franck Frégosi, final report of program, « L’organisation de l’Islam en France. L’exemple du statut des ministres du culte musulmans dans le cadre des mosquées » / The organization of Islam in France. The example of the status of Muslim ministers of worship in the context of mosques, 337 p.
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Enseignement confessionnel musulman destiné aux enfants (5-11 ans) / Muslim denominational education for children (5-11 years old) 178 p
The team conducted several ethnographic fieldwork in the Île-de-France and South regions in structures offering a specific offer of training in Islam and with the agents of this religious transmission (teachers, educational and association leaders and parents). The first observation from the survey results is that this denominational education is organized in association law 1901, even when it comes to structures founded under the aegis of a Koranic master. Based on the modes of organization and naming of these offers, we have established a typology of institutions: “the mosque”, “the Koranic school” and “the institute-school”.
- The mosque offers classes for children that take place within it. Classes are generally taught by the imam and/or a faculty. Here it is the context of the place that must be emphasized because other activities take place there. The mosque can be affiliated with a national federation which can induce specific pedagogical lines.
- The Koranic school is devoted to this sole teaching function, it is organized around the Koranic master, who defines the programs and the pedagogy.
- The institute-school is organized around a teaching team and a management, this category includes emic terminologies, which indicate that the representatives and managers clearly wish to include the training activity in the identity of the structure. While they may be informally associated or affiliated with another mosque-type structure, or more formally with a private Muslim school, this is not always the case.
For these three forms, the courses are mostly paid, the number of students enrolled varies from one structure to another (between 55 and 600). Children are generally welcomed, between 4 and 15 years old. Since about 2014, several centers have opened “discovery” sections for children aged 3 to 6. On the invested land, the age of reception of the pupils is rather around 6 years old. Numbers drop sharply from adolescence. On the whole, mosques and institute-schools do not indicate national cultural origin, unless they belong to a Muslim minority such as Mauritians and Turks. On the other hand, Koranic schools do.
After presenting the framework of the research by the chosen methodological approach and the places invested, the results are presented thematically. First of all, the teaching aids and uses are analyzed through the methods used, those distributed by publishing houses, those developed by specific institutions and finally those "cobbled together" on a daily basis by teachers. We also discuss in this part the materialities and teaching styles. Secondly, we analyze what is at stake around the Arabic language between religion and cultures, as capital and as linguistic and aesthetic skills. Finally, in the last part, we study the circulation of teaching models and prestige research techniques. Thus, we bring to light the modes of validation and the valorization of learning, the "self-presentations" around activities such as the end-of-year celebrations, the Koranic competitions in which the institutions can participate, to finally replace these offers in an institutional context around peri-religious activities, such as conferences, philosophical meetings, outings, etc.
Finally, in conclusion, we highlight the discrepancies between the expectations of parents and those of the institution around language, rhythms and evaluations. We return to the question of the models borrowed (from the national state school more than from the traditional model) and the process of professionalizing this offer. In addition, we suggest that a comparative study be carried out on religious teachings as a whole (catechism, Talmud Torah and Protestant teaching) in order to study further the question of the imprint that the republican school leaves on the teachings dispensed. in these structures.L’organisation de l’Islam en France. L’exemple du statut des ministres du culte musulmans dans le cadre des mosquées / The organization of Islam in France. The example of the status of Muslim ministers of worship in the context of mosques, 337 p.
In this report, we present and analyze various social and religious profiles of imams that Muslims encounter in the places of worship they frequent and in which regular religious activity takes place. This study, if it fits more globally among the various works already published on the imams, intends to propose a more global vision, on a national scale. The imams we met are of all origins and nationalities (French, North African, Turkish, Comorian, etc.) and regularly intervene in Muslim places of worship in France (Islamic centres, neighborhood mosques, prayer rooms, etc. .), in an official and statutory way (detached imams, imams trained in Europe, etc.), or on an occasional basis (lecturing imams, imams of the month of Ramadan, acting as imams). They may be remunerated for carrying out their religious missions (seconded foreign civil servants, association employees, expenses, etc.) but are most often volunteers. This research makes it possible in particular to specify the diversity of profiles and situations by detailing the types of activities carried out by these operators of the cult. The tasks directly linked to the guidance of religious practice, those which are related, the more social activities, even administrative, are thus approached.
– The first resolutely synthetic part (The imams in France: between social invisibility, generalized suspicion and overmediatization) aims first of all to specify what historically covers the function of the religious imam in the light of the canonical sources of the Muslim religion and the need to take into account the weight of the contexts and controversies that surround the exercise of this primarily religious function in Western societies and in France more particularly. We question the institutional dynamics, as well as the political processes and exceptional circumstances that have marked the organization of Islam in France in recent years, at the crossroads of the expectations of Muslim communities and the injunctions of public authorities in terms of normalization of the practice of Islam in a secular regime or in the fight against so-called radicalization phenomena and to attempt to perceive the objective degree of involvement of imams in the governance of French Islam. Finally, we are interested in the phenomenon of media coverage that surrounds some of them, as well as in the flowering of testimonial works by imams, which suggests that after having been confined for a long time to the status of simple spectators, they can be considered as real players in the governance of Islam in a secular regime.
– In the second part (The imam in his mosque: a cult operator among others) we present the quantitative results drawn from the data collected by questionnaires (100) and the resulting comments, before presenting in a synthetic way and exhaustive the daily life of the imams met in the mosques they serve on the basis of the results drawn from our own field survey.
In particular, from an ethnographic perspective, it is a question of focusing on the analysis of the guidance of the prayer of the faithful (collective Friday prayer and khutba, fivefold daily prayer, etc.), the primary task expected of the imam independently of its status (salaried imam, volunteer imam, detached imams, compensated imams, etc.), and the way in which the guidance of prayer in mosques gives rise to shared responsibilities, as well as a real social sharing of religious work (often between generations and level of Arabization) while also bringing to light interactions between different actors who are unequally endowed with religious capital within them. In this part, we also take care to describe the other religious and social tasks accomplished by the imam within the mosque at the crossroads between the universe of ritual practices surrounding the various high points of human life (rites of passage, birth, marriage, death), educational missions (learning Arabic language, recitation of the Koran, etc.), therapeutic practices (ruqiya) and legal consultation (fatwa).
– In the third part (The imam between the minbar and society), we understand the type of interactions that may exist between life inside the mosque and life outside the mosque. In a first sequence we analyze the process that led men of the Muslim faith to want to become imam, a complex process where vocation and social need intersect, primary religious socialization by the family, secondary socialization by peers, militant paths in structures or movements claiming a politicized Islam, and a range of opportunities (migration project, social demands of communities, etc.). We then discuss the life of the imam outside the mosque and question the various types of involvement of the imam in the city and the various repertoires of privileged collective action. Finally, we present the various expectations of the imams, whether they are salary, social or symbolic (systematic salary or defense of voluntary work, charter of the imam, etc.).Communications
International symposia
• “Introduction” with Norig Neveu (Iremam) and Karène Sanchez Summerer (Groningen University).
• “Neuro-linguistic programming for preaching?”, Round table 2. Staging preaching/
2021, October, 13-15, « Introduction », with Katia Boissevain, (IRMC, Tunis), Séverine Gabry-Thienpont (Idemec) and Norig Neveu (Iremam), Les autorités religieuses en mouvement : circulation, transmission et matérialité (christianisme, judaïsme, islam – XX-XXIe siècle) / Religious authorities in motion: circulation, transmission and materiality (Christianity, Judaism, Islam – XX-XXI century), MMSH Aix-en-Provence, France.
2019, July, 03-05, « Retour sur une enquête collective sur le statut des imâms en France : état des lieux d’une approche par questionnaire » / “Back to a collective survey on the status of imams in France: inventory of a questionnaire approach”, De la fabrique des autorités religieuses en islam : qualifications, légitimations et ancrages en Europe, Moyen-Orient et au Maghreb, Third Congress of Middle East and the Islamic World, Paris, France.
2018
• June 18-20, « “Apprendre les bases de l’islam pour ne pas dérailler”. La transmission religieuse par les institutions islamiques en France comme rempart aux discours radicaux ? » / “‘Learn the basics of Islam so as not to go astray’. Religious transmission by Islamic institutions in France against Radical Discourses”, Educative communities - training and practices in the context of diversity, 3th International Education and Diversity Network (RIED), Geneva, Switzerland.
• April, 24-26, “The ‘resurgence’ of Bulgarian hatim? A religious ritual in a public sphere.”, Acknowledging diversity, claiming equality, The Impact of Religion Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Februrary, 21-22, with Franck Frégosi (CHERPA), « Enquêter sur les imâms en France au prisme des sciences sociales : quelques enseignements pratiques » / “Investigating the Imams in France through the prism of social sciences: some practical lessons”, L’imâm dans la cité séculière. Légitimités, fonctions et engagements dans et en dehors de la mosquée, IEP CHERPA, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2017, July 06-08, « L’enseignement islamique extrascolaire à Marseille et sa périphérie » / “The non-formal islamic education in Marseilles”, Enseignements islamiques en “terres d’islam” et en Europe : une mise en perspective, Second conference of the CNRS Scientific Interest Group of the “Middle East and Muslim Worlds”, Inalco Paris, France.
2016
• December, 15-16, “The ‘resurgence’ of Bulgarian hatim? What the Ottoman and communist past makes to the ritual”, Research Perspectives 30 Years after L’islam balkanique. Workshop in Memory of Alexandre Popovic (1931-2014), School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, France.
• September, 08-10, « Entre production académique et pratiques festives : les ressorts politiques de la folklorisation des fêtes musulmanes en Bulgarie » / “Between academic production and festive practices: political effects of the Muslim holidays in Bulgaria”, Colloque International francophone, XXXème Atelier du réseau FER-EURETHNO du Conseil de l’Europe, « L’inventaire des fêtes en Europe. Comparaisons et nouvelles méthodes d’étude », MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• June, 02-04, « Dynamiques et circulations religieuses en Bulgarie postcommuniste » / “Dynamic and religious circulations in post-communist Bulgaria”, Second Balkan studies meeting In search of the Balkans: Between Europe and the Mediterranean?, A museum for Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM), Marseilles, France.
2015, July, 02-05, « Des clips musicaux : modes de transmission et circulation d’un discours sur les religiosités islamiques en France » / “Music Videos: Modes of Transmission and Circulation of a Discourse on Islamic Religiosities”, 33nd International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) Conference, “Religious experience”, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
2014
• November, 17-18, « Pratiques et représentations sur l’usage religieux du français chez les musulmans d’origine maghrébine et comorienne. De l’invocation à la lecture du Coran en contexte français » / “From the Invocation to the reading of the Koran. Practices and representations on the use of the French language by Muslims from North Africa or the Comoros in the French context”, Religiosités musulmanes francophones dans le monde : questions d’actualité et perspectives de recherche / The religiosities of french-speaking muslims in the world: topical questions and perspectives of research, XVe Sommet de la Francophonie, Saint Louis, Senegal.
• April, 03-04, « La (ré)organisation des institutions islamiques en Bulgarie : le fait islamique dans les dispositifs publics bulgares » / “The (re)organization of Islamic institutions in Bulgaria: Islamic fact in the Bulgarian public policies”, Peut-on parler de politiques publiques religieuses en Europe et dans le bassin méditerranéen ? / Can we speak about religious public policies in Europe and in the Mediterranean Basin?, SciencesPo, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2013, June, 27-30, “The Islamic institutions of extracurricular teaching in the French context: a reinvention of tradition?”, 32nd ISSR Conference, “Rethinking Community. Religious continuities and mutations in late modernity”, Turku-Åbo, Finland.
2012
• November, 14-16, « Les dispositifs mimétiques comme mode de transmission religieuse au sein des institutions islamiques et de l’environnement familial en France » / “The mimetic devices as way of religious transmission within the Islamic institutions and within the family environment in France”, Third International Symposia of the Institute of Humanities and Society (ISHS), « Transmission(s), entre pertes et profits », Federation Research on SHS-UBO, Brest, France.
• June, 26-29, “The Hitima or Hatim, Celebration and Rite of Passage for Young Muslim of France and Bulgaria: The Challenges of Religious Education for Minority in Europe”, Eighth Annual Conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Working Group on The Ritual Year: Migrations, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
2010, March, 24, « Comment se construisent les espaces du culte dans les rapports de genre ? » / “How the spaces of worship are built by gender relations?” with Annie Benveniste, Final Symposia of WP 2.2 of Ramses², Femmes dans L’islam et dans le judaïsme Négociations autour du genre et de la religion / Women in Islam and Judaism: Negotiations around gender and religion, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2005
• October, 19-21, « Qu’apprend-on à l’école coranique ? Approche ethnologique de l’apprentissage religieux de l’islam en France et en Bulgarie » / “What are children learning at Koranic school? Ethnological approach to religious learning of Islam in France and Bulgaria”, International Symposia of Francophone Association for Comparative Education (Afec) and International Centre for Educational Studies (CIEP), Education, Religion, Secularization. What stakes for education policies, which stakes for the compared education?, Sèvres, France.
• June, 11, « Construction du soi islamique : approche ethnologique » / “Islamic self-construct: ethnological approach”, Fourth Congress of the researchers on Islam, L’identitaire et l’Universel dans l’Islam Contemporain / The identity and the universal in Contemporary Islam, EHESS, Paris, France.Invited conferences
2018,
2016, September, 26, « Retour sur un itinéraire de recherche : l’apprentissage de l’islam en France » / “Back on a research: Islamic learning in France”, Transmission et apprentissage de l’islam en contexte français : enjeux et approches, DYSOLAB (Laboratoire sur les Dynamiques sociales), University of Rouen – Mont Saint Aignan, France.
2014, January, 22, « La “catéchèse islamique” dans les associations à Marseille. Le cas de l'enseignement extra-scolaire à la mosquée et au shioni pour les familles d'origine maghrébine et comorienne » / “The ‘Islamic catechesis’ in Non-profit organisations in Marseilles. The case of non-formal education to the mosque and shioni for Muslim families from North Africa or the Comoros”, Religion and Migration: actors and territories. The example of Marseilles, MuCEM, Marseilles, France.
2013
• October, 2, « La circulation de l’argent dans les rituels religieux » / “Circulation of the money in the religious ceremonies”, 3th Cycle of Civic Centre for the Study of Religion (CCEFR), God(s) and Money, Montreuil, France.
• April, 11, « De l’éthique religieuse à l’hexis corporelle. Différenciations et interactions de genre dans le cadre de l’apprentissage islamique à Marseille » / “From religious ethics to body hexis. Gender differentiations and gender interactions within the framework of the Islamic learning in Marseilles”, Gender and sexuality through the prism of religion in the Mediterranean, coordinated by Lisa Anteby-Yemini (Idemec), Florence Bergeaud-Blackler (Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds - Lamc, Brussels), Katia Boissevain (Idemec) and Stephanie Latte-Abdallah, (Research Institute on the Muslim and Arab World - IREMAM), MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2010, May, 3, « Juives et Musulmanes en Méditerranée : genre, religion, identité » / “Muslim and Jewish Women in the Mediterranean: religion, gender, identity”, Closing Seminar of Ramses², The Mediterranean, Memories, Conflicts, Exchanges, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.Seminars
• October, 17, « Introduction », avec Benoit Fliche et Séverine Gabry-Thienpont (Ideas, CNRS, AMU), Cycle 1 du séminaire de l’Ideas : L’habileté algorithmique en question, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• June, 28, « Les approches globales en anthropologie. Entre approches multi-situées, Global Scapes et concept des “assemblages” » / “Global Approaches in Anthropology: Between Multi-Situated Approaches, Global Scapes, and the Concept of 'Assemblages’”, Séminaire GlobalMed, resp. Céline Regnard (TELEMMe, AMU, CNRS), MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• June, 05, « Introduction », avec Diane-Sophie Girin (CéSor), Usages des pédagogies nouvelles dans l’enseignement religieux, Aubervilliers, France.
• Mai, 05, « Approche anthropologique au défi de la pluridisciplinarité sur l'étude du fait islamique »/ “Anthropological approach to the challenge of multidisciplinarity in Islamic studies”, Institut français d'islamologie, resp. Juliette Dumas (IREMAM, AMU, CNRS), MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• February, 5, « Le jouet comme matérialité religieuse ? L’exemple des poupées dites islamiques en contexte français » / “The toy as religious materiality? The example of so-called Islamic dolls in the French context”, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, groupe “Récits et Faits Religieux”, resp. Thierry Maire (CMH, EHESS), École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
• June 9, « Réflexions sur les transformations des modes de faire dans les pratiques islamiques en contexte français » / “Reflections on the transformations of ways of doing things in Islamic practices in the French context”, Islams et musulmans de France : nouveaux terrains, approches et paradigmes, coordinated by Amel Boubekeur (EHESS) and Vincent Geisser (Iremam, CNRS-AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France.
• April, 22, « Musulmans de Bulgarie : un cas heuristique d’une nécessaire contextualisation » / “Bulgarian Muslims: a heuristic case of a necessary contextualization”, Représentations des islams : regards et vécus panchroniques, coordinated by Salomé Deboos (SAGE) and Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau (Archimède), Strasbourg, France.
2019, October, 31, « Usage vernaculaire des termes de l’autorité » / “Vernacular use of authority terms”, De la fabrique des autorités religieuses : qualifications, légitimations et ancrages des « clercs » de l’islam, du christianisme et du judaïsme en Méditerranée, CHERPA, Idemec, Iremam, CéSor, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2018
• December, 7, « Adaptation, création ou innovation ? Questionnements autour de pratiques islamiques en contexte français » / “Adaptation, creation or innovation? Questions about Islamic practices in French context”, Interactions et créatives religieuses : perspectives anthropologiques, coordinated by Detelina Tocheva and Virginie Vaté (GSRL), Paris, France.
• November, 9, « Légitimité de l’imam en situation : la khutba en France comme exemple » / “Legitimacy of the imam in situation: the khutba in France as an example”, De la fabrique des autorités religieuses : qualifications, légitimations et ancrages des « clercs » de l’islam, du christianisme et du judaïsme en Méditerranée, CHERPA, Idemec, Iremam, CéSor, IEP Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
• November, 13, « La transmission du religieux dans les écoles coraniques : focus sur les Comoriens à Marseille » / “The transmission of religion in Koranic schools: focus on the Comorians in Marseille”, Islam et politique à Marseille, coordinated by Myriam Catusse, Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi, Vincent Geisser, CRAPUL (Centre de recherche sur l’action politique), Iremam, Université de Lausanne, Suisse.
• May, 14, « Enseignements islamiques associatifs en France à l’épreuve des attentes des acteurs de l’école » / “Islamic teachings in France proof against the expectations of the actors of the school”, coordinated by Juliette Honvault and Christine Mussard (IREMAM), L'éducation dans et sur les mondes et musulmans : L’école à l’épreuve, IREMAM – Aix-en-Provence, France.
2017
• December, 1th, with Norig Neveu (IREMAM), « Introduction » / “Introduction”, De la fabrique des autorités religieuses : qualifications, légitimations et ancrages des « clercs » de l’islam, du christianisme et du judaïsme en Méditerranée / The Making of Religious Authorities: qualifications, legitimizations and anchors of the "clerics" of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Mediterranean, CeSOR, CHERPA, IDEMEC, IREMAM, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• June, 17, « Le pèlerinage du 15 août à Batchkovo (Bulgarie) : entre tourismes et dévotions. Regard d’une ethnologue de l’islam sur des religiosités orthodoxes. » / “The pilgrimage of 15 August in Bachkovo (Bulgaria): between tourism and devotion. An ethnologist's view of Islam on Orthodox religiosities”, Orthodoxies en interactions, coordinated by Marie-Amélie Salabelle, Detelina Tocheva and Virginie Vaté, Research Institute on issues of religions and secularism (GSRL), Paris, France.
• 2016, April, 1, « Mufti, Imam et Hodja ? Concurrences et légitimités religieuses en Bulgarie postcommuniste » / “Mufti, Imam and Hodja? Competitions and religious legitimacy in post-communist Bulgaria”, Concurrences religieuses, mode d’emploi. Enquêtes sur les usages de différenciations / “Religious competitions, Mode of action. Studies on the uses of differentiation”, coordinated by Christophe Pons and Katia Boissevain (Idemec), Sandra Fancello (Imaf), Alix Philippon (Cherpa), MMSH Aix-en-Provence, France.
2015
• April, 14, « L’enseignement islamique en Bulgarie postsocialiste : contextes, organisation et enjeux transnationaux » / “Islamic education in post-socialist Bulgaria: contexts, organizations and transnational issues”, À l’école du religieux ? Formation et transmission religieuses en Méditerranée / “At school of religious teaching? Religious training and Religious transmission in the Mediterranean”, coordinated by Valentine Zuber (GSRL), l’EPHE-IESR, Paris, France.
• March, 12, « Usages de la communauté : paradigmes et paradoxes » / “The usages of ‘Community’: paradigms and paradoxes”, Communauté, attachement, reconnaissance dans les Balkans et en Méditerranée, from the Atri The Balkans and the Mediterranean: common objects/contrasting perspectives, coordinated by Olivier Givre (Idemec - EVS-CREA), Bianca Botéa (EVS-CREA), Pierre Sintes (Telemme), Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Lyon, France.
2014
• November, 13, With Olivier Givre (University Lumière Lyon 2), « Enjeux, conflits et représentations autour de la restitution du patrimoine religieux en Bulgarie » / “Issues, conflicts and representations around the restitution of religious heritage in Bulgaria”, Lieux de culte : transferts, refondations et patrimonialisations en Méditerranée / Places of worship: transfers, refundings and ‘patrimonializations’ in Mediterranean area, Programmes MERAP-MED: Religious memories and heritage practices in the Mediterranean. Confessional coexistence and heritage assertion (CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora, FCT-Portugal) and BalkaMed: The Balkans and the Mediterranean: common objects/contrasting perspectives, coordinated by Cyril Isnard and Manoël Pénicaud (Idemec), Jérémie Foa and Pierre Sintes (Telemme), MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• February, 7, « Incorporations du texte coranique » / “Koran Embodied”, Social uses of texts, Dynamiques religieuses / Religious dynamics, Idemec, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2012, March, 16, « Entre fête et festival : De l’Aïd à la mosquée à l’Aïd dans la cité (Bouches du Rhône) » / “Between religious feast and festival: from the Eid in the mosque to the Eid in the city (Bouches du Rhône)”, Dynamiques religieuses / Religious dynamics, Idemec, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2009, November, 27-29, « L’espace du culte et les femmes à partir d’observations dans une mosquée de Marseille et une synagogue à Sarcelles » / “Women and places of worship from observations in a mosque in Marseilles and a synagogue in Sarcelles”, with Annie Benveniste, First session: Women, space and religious roles in Islam and Judaism, WP. 2.2. of Ramses², coordinated by Lisa Anteby-Yemini, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2008
• December, 5, « Des touristes au long cours ? » / “Long Term Tourists?”, Pour une approche ethnologique du tourisme. Voyages « au pays » : migrants ou touristes ? / An Anthropological Approach to Tourism. Returns to the country: migrants or tourists?, coordinated by Katia Boissevain and André Juillard, Idemec, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• November, 19-20, « Espaces du culte, femmes et islams » / “Spaces of worship, women and Islams”, L’accès des femmes aux textes religieux et à l’espace du culte dans l’islam et le judaïsme / The access of the women to the religious texts and to the space of the worship in the Islam and the Judaism, coordinated by Lisa Anteby-Yemini, MMSH, GSRL, Paris, France.
2007, September, 30-October, 1, « Apprendre la pureté rituelle en islam. Entre représentations et pratiques » / “Learn the ritual purity in Islam. Between representations and practices”, Workshop Muslim and Jewish Women in the Mediterranean today: religion, identity and integration, WP. 2.2. of Ramses², coordinated by Lisa Anteby-Yemini, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2004, December, 17, « France/Bulgarie : un comparatisme à développer ? Varier les échelles pour mieux cerner les enjeux de l’apprentissage religieux » / “France/Bulgaria: a comparative approach to be developed? Vary the scales of analysis to better include the religious learning challenges”, Ph.D. student day of Idemec, coordinated by Benoît Fliche, Idemec, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Invited Discussant
2021, October, 14, Panel : « Espaces rituels et médias : matrice technologique des expressions religieuses et nouvelles hétérotopies » with Anne-Sophie Lamine (SAGE, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS) : « Les prédicateurs-youtubeurs musulmans, de nouveaux types d’autorités religieuses ? », Nadjet Zouggar (IREMAM, AMU, CNRS) : « Les termes du débat sur l’autorité du hadith en islam aujourd’hui » and Emir Mahieddin (CéSoR, EHESS, CNRS) : « Des canaux vers le Paradis : une toile et des satellites pour sauver le monde arabe », Les autorités religieuses en mouvement : circulation, transmission et matérialité (christianisme, judaïsme, islam – XX-XXIe siècle) / Religious authorities in motion: circulation, transmission and materiality (Christianity, Judaism, Islam – XX-XXI century), MMSH Aix-en-Provence, France.
2018
• April, 19-20, « Conversions religieuses, subjectivités relationnelles et guérisons », Géraldine Mossière (Pr. Anthropologue, Université de Montréal), « Croire en la croyance de l’autre. Le problème de la sincérité dans le monde pentecôtiste », Emir Mahieddin (Anthropologue, Post-doc Univ. Uppsala, IDEMEC) et « La construction sociale du “radicalisé” », Loïc Le Pape (Mcf. Sociologue, CESSP, Univ. Paris 1), Explorer le sujet dans ses modes d’être en croyance, du projet amorce « Explorer la Subjectivation dans le croire. Enquête sur les matrices ontologiques de la conversion religieuse » / Explore Subjectivation in Believing. Survey of ontological matrices of religious conversion, coordinated by Christophe Pons, IDEMEC, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• February, 20-21, Conduct a round-table discussion “The imam, the administrator of the cult and the Political City” (4 speakers), The Imam in the Secular City. Legitimacy, Functions and Commitments in and outside the mosque, CHERPA, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2013, June, 20, « Les pratiques sexuelles des marocains hétérosexuels avant le mariage : contraintes et rapports de genre », Sanaa el Aji (Ph.D. candidate, Beliefs, History, Space, Political and Administrative Regulation - Cherpa), Summer School SciencesPo, coordinated by Aude Signoles, Cherpa, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2012, January, 20, « Un nouveau paradigme pour l’anthropologie ? », with Albert Piette (Prof. Paris X-Nanterre, Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology - Lesc), Épistémologie-Méthodologie, coordinated by Émir Chamil Mahieddin, Idemec, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2010, January, 5, « L’histoire comme source et ressource : fondamentalisme orthodoxe et “sortie du communisme” (sur l’exemple des Vieux-Calendaristes en Bulgarie) » with Galia Valtchinova, (Dir. Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Idemec, CETOBaC, EHESS, Paris), Dynamiques religieuses / Religious dynamics, coordinated by Christophe Pons, Idemec, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2009, March, 2-3, Session: “Women and Sexual identity”, with Martine Gross (EHESS, Paris): « Homosexualité féminine et textes du judaïsme » and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip (University of Nottingham): “Negotiating Sexuality, Religion and Culture: Narratives of British Lesbian Muslims”, Strategies of Negotiation by Muslim and Jewish Women in the Field of Family Law and Sexuality, WP. 2.2. of Ramses², coordinated by Lisa Anteby-Yemini and Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.Coordination of Scientific Research
With Raphaël Bories (Mucem), coordination of Axis 3. Staging of preaching, team of 6 researchers.
2016-2018, Sept.-Feb. Enseignement confessionnel musulman destiné aux enfants (5-11 ans) / “Confessional Muslim Education for Children (5-11 Years)”, 8 researchers, Idemec, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2016-2018, Nov.-April, L’organisation de l’Islam en France. L’exemple du statut des ministres du culte musulmans dans le cadre des mosquées / “The organization of Islam in France. The case of the status of the imams in the context of the mosques”, 5 researchers, Cherpa, Aix-en-Provence, France.Coordination and management of seminar
– 2024, March, 27-29, with Norig Neveu (Iremam) and Karène Sanchez Summerer (Groningen University), International symposia “Grammars of Preaching: lexis, mapping, staging (Middle East, 19th-21st centuries) ”, Mucem, Marseille, France, program : <https://www.efrome.it/fileadmin/res/PDF_Flyers_Affiches_Programmes/Moderne/Programme-PREDICMO-ENG.pdf>
– 2021, October, 13-15, with Norig Neveu (Iremam), Séverine Gabry-Thienpont (Idemec), Katia Boissevain (IRMC) and Sabrina Mervin (CéSor), International symposia « Les autorités religieuses en mouvement : circulation, transmission et matérialité (christianisme, judaïsme, islam - XX-XXIe siècle) » / “Religious authorities in motion: circulation, transmission and materiality (Christianity, Judaism, Islam – XX-XXI century) ”, Aix-en-Provence, France, Program : <https://iismm.hypotheses.org/55251>
– 2024, June, 5, with Diane-Sophie Girin (CeSor) « Usages des pédagogies nouvelles dans l’enseignement religieux »/New pedagogical approaches in religious education, Ideas-CeSor, Aubervilliers, programme : <
Seminars
– 2024-2025, Cycle one, Ideas Seminar, with Benoit fliche (Ideas), Séverine Gabry-Thienpont (Ideas), « L'habileté algorithmique en question »/ “Algorithmic skill in question”, Aix-en-Provence, with 4 speakers, program : <https://ideas-cnrs.univ-amu.fr/actualites/calendrier-general-2024-2025-du-seminaire-ideas>
– 2017-2021, monthly sessions, with Katia Boissevain (Idemec), Norig Neveu (Iremam), Franck Frégosi (CHERPA), Elsa Grugeon (Mesopolhis) and Sabrina Mervin (CéSor), Seminar « De la fabrique des autorités religieuses : qualifications, légitimations et ancrages des “clercs” de l’islam, du christianisme et du judaïsme en Méditerranée » / The Making of Religious Authorities: qualifications, legitimizations and anchors of the "clerics" of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Mediterranean, Aix-en-Provence, Program 2018-2021 : <http://marielaureboursin.free.fr/pdf/De_la_fabrique_des_autorites_religieuses_programme.pdf>.
• 2012, May, 25, With Karine Michel, « De facebook au LGBT : les nouveaux usages de la Communauté » / “From Facebook to the LGBT: the new usages of the term Community”, Communauté(s) / Communit(ies).
• 2004, October, 7-9, « Du géranium au paysage » / “From geranium to the landscape”, The fifth seminar of European domain's ethnobotany, L’observatoire, Saint Michel l’Observatoire, France.Responsibilities and administrative activities
• Member of the coordination committee of the international research network, GlobalMed, coordinated by the Mediterranean House of Human Sciences (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence, France.
• Member of the scientific council for the “Islam and society” calls for projects, DLPAJ, Central Office of Religious Affairs, Paris, France.
Elective
2019-2020, Elected Administrative member of the CHERPA laboratory council, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2007, October, Creating Ermes, Association of Cultural, Scientific and intercultural Mediation, with Manoël Pénicaud, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2004-2006, Ph.D. Student Representative of Idemec, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Editorial
2018-2024, Assessor for the revues Archives de sciences sociales des religions, L’Année du Maghreb, Balkanologie et Insaniyat.
2020-2022, Member of the editorial committee and the scientific council of the Hypothèse notebook, Un Œil sur la Cité, <https://spx.hypotheses.org/>
2008-2011, Participation in the selection and editing of Dictionary articles of DicoMed.
2007-2010, Editor (with Manoël Pénicaud) of the newsletter of Adam.
Scientific editor of:
• 2014, HÉRAULT Laurence, dir., La parenté transgenre, Presses universitaires de Provence, Aix-en-Provence.
• 2006, LIEUTAGHI Pierre et Danielle Musset, dirs., Plantes, sociétés, savoirs, symboles, Les plantes alimentaires : du ramassage au jardin ; du symbolique à l’ornemental ; du géranium au paysage. Actes du séminaire d’ethnobotanique de Salagon, vol. 3, année 2003-2004, Mane, Musée de Salagon et Éditions Les Alpes de Lumière (Cahiers de Salagon 11).
Expertise
2013-2015, Member of Commission on Secularism, Education basin of the Marseilles's North coast, at the invitation of Françoise Lorcerie (Iremam), Marseilles, France.
Scientific Valorizations
2018, January, Reading note by Justine Canonne, « Comment prient les musulmans français », Sciences humaines, n°300, of the article « À l’heure de la prière : entre pratiques et expérimentations », Ethnologie française, n°168, 2017/4.
2017, November, Radio Emission Le journal des idées by Jacques Munier, « L’islam au défi de la modernité », France culture, mention of the article « À l’heure de la prière : entre pratiques et expérimentations », Ethnologie française, n°168, 2017/4.
2016, January, Interviewed by Mikael Corre for Pilgrim magazine, “What is a mosque?” N° 6945, January 7, 2016.
2015, April, 1st., Participation in a radio debate CNRS, « Un islam, des islams : les différents courants de l’islam (schismes et doctrines) » / “An Islam, the Islams: the different currents of Islam (schisms and doctrines)”, with Pierre Lory and Nabil Mouline, led by Anne Brucy, journalist, CNRS, Paris (France).
2014, « La transmission du fait religieux islamique chez les jeunes à Marseille » / “Islamic religious transmission among young people in Marseilles”, Commission on Secularism, Education basin of the Marseilles's North coast, Marseilles.
2013, Participation in the documentary: « MuCEM, Naissance d’un Musée », Samuel Lajus, writ. and dir., (2013, 54 min. Marseilles: 13 production, Paris: Arte).
2010, January-February, Photo exhibition, « Exotisme, altérité et fantasme », “Exoticism, Otherness and fantasy”, a series of portraits, Travel, Espace Sextius, Aix-en-Provence (France).
2008, March-May, Photo exhibition, “Post-it City”, Project Walkscapes, “Urban walking”, in Barcelona, Collective project of Stalker and Osservatorio Nomade in April 2007, curator the University of Barcelona, School of Design Elisava and the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), CCCB, Barcelona (Spain).
1995, Producing, shooting and editing a documentary about Tunisia, « Une odeur de Jasmin » / “The smell of Jasmine”, 22 min., Co funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia, High school of Vallée de Chevreuse, Gif-sur-Yvette (France).Professional membership
Since 2013, International Society for the Sociology of Religion.
Since 2012, International Society for Ethnology and Folklore.
Since 2007, Ermes.
2007-2012, Adam.