Debate and discrimination

Debate and discrimination

Le Monde des Religions No. 58 – March/April 2013 – It will undoubtedly seem strange to some of our readers that, following the heated parliamentary debate in France on same-sex marriage, we are devoting a large part of this issue to how...

Are you Open-Minded about your Spiritual Life?

Nouvelles Clés interviews sociologist Frédéric Lenoir about his remarkable historical, psychological, and sociological portrait of religion, *Les Métamorphoses de Dieu ou la nouvelle spiritualité occidentale* (1). A conversation with Frédéric Lenoir, interviewed by Marc...

The great return of esotericism

Published in Nouvel Observateur Hebdo 2/12/2004 — Nouvel Observateur: The meteoric success of Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code, which has reached one million copies in France and to which you have just dedicated a book ("The Da Vinci Code: The Investigation" published by...

The Esoteric is back in force

Nouvel Observateur: Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, about which you have just written a book (“Da Vinci Code: the investigation” published by Robert Laffont (1)), has sold a million copies in France alone. The dazzling success of his book – like the growing interest in the...