RELIGIOUS FACT, ATLANTIC HISTORY: TWO HISTORIOGRAPHICAL RENEWALS IN AMERICANIST WORKS
Friday, September 24th, 11:15am-1:15pm
Centre de Colloques, room 2
Organization : Olivier Chatelan (LARHRA – Université Lyon 3) and Agnès Delahaye (Triangle – Université Lyon 2)
Speakers : Olivier Chatelan (LARHRA – Université Lyon 3), Agnès Delahaye (Triangle – Université Lyon 2), Richard
Marin (FRAMESPA – Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès), Élodie Peyrol-Kleiber (MIMMOC – Université de Poitiers)
Presentation : Within the abundant production of historiography about the Americas in recent years, this round table means to highlight two themes that are currently being renewed through contact with other disciplines or geographical areas. The first one is the modern and contemporary history of the religious fact, which irrigates a good number of recent Americanist works, as the latest titles in the collection “Des Amériques” (PUR) show. The concept of mission, in the Catholic as well as the Protestant world, is especially re-interrogated through the prisms of gender categories, historiographical renewal of slavery and Indianness, or new archives, for the North as well as for the South of the continent. New research about the circulation of beliefs and people questions and contextualizes religious belonging and identification, traditionally seen as fixed or impervious to one another. The second theme of this historiographical exchange is the deep transformations brought to the discipline by the evolution of the Atlantic story over the last ten years. Indeed, recent works on colonization, societies and states development in the Americas emphasize the need to conceive the maritime space and the American territories as deeply connected areas over the long duration of free or forced exchanges of people, goods and ideas that are central to colonial and imperial development. We will question the scope and the limits of notions like transnationality, interculturality and hybridity, which call for questions and innovation in historicalresearch methods and encourage Americanists to overcome the linguistic or geographical boundaries that have until recently defined their particular fields.
With the support of LAHRHA UMR 5190
