Thèmes et Lectures Themes and Readings « Religion et politique

Thèmes et
Lectures
Themes and
Readings
« Religion et politique: perspective comparative »
“Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective”
1-12 juillet 2013 / July 1-12, 2013
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Accueilli par / Hosted by the Institute for Governance and Development (IGD)
Sponsorisé par / Sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA)
TOME 1 / Volume 1
THEME 1:
“Conceptualiser la religion et la politique: dynamiques globales et émergence d’une
sous-discipline ”
“Conceptualizing religion and politics: Global dynamics and the rise of a subdiscipline”
Date: lundi, 1 juillet / Monday, July 1st
Présentateur / Presenter: Kenneth Wald
Bibliographie de base pour les échanges / Core readings for discussion:
1. Wald, Kenneth D. and Clyde Wilcox. 2006. "Getting Religion: Has Political Science
Rediscovered the Faith Factor?" American Political Science Review 100: 523-530. 8 pp.
2. Thomas, Scott M. 2000. “Taking Religious and Cultural Pluralism Seriously: The Global
Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Society.” Millennium - Journal
of International Studies 29: 815-841.
3. Weisbrod, Bernd. 2002. la violence fondamentaliste: violence politique et religion politique dans
le conflit moderne. Revue internationale des sciences sociales 2002/4 - n° 174 pages 551 à 560.
En ligne: http://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-des-sciences-sociales-2002-4-page-551.htm
THEME 2.1: “Les grilles d’analyse sur la religion et la politique”
“Theoretical traditions and approaches to religion and politics”
Date: mardi, 2 juillet / Tuesday, July 2nd
Présentateur / Presenter: Kenneth Wald
Bibliographie de base pour les échanges / Core readings for discussion:
1. Yoder, Don. 1974. "Toward a Definition of Folk Religion." Western Folklore 33: 2-15. 14pp.
2. Wald, Kenneth D., Adam L. Silverman and Kevin Fridy. 2005. "Making Sense of Religion in
Public Life." Annual Review of Political Science 8: 121-143. 23 pp.
3. Wildavsky, Aaron. 1987. “Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory
of Preference Formation.” American Political Science Review 81: 3-13. 11pp. [abridged]
4. Iannaccone, Laurence R. 1991. "The Consequences of Religious Market Structure: Adam Smith
and the Economics of Religion." Rationality & Society 3: 156-177.
THEME 2.2: “Les approches théoriques dans les contextes africains: les barrières disciplinaires”
“Theoretical approaches in African Contexts: Research frontiers”
Date: mardi, 2 juillet / Tuesday, July 2nd
Présentateur / Presenter (roundtable format):
Einas Ahmed, Augustin Loada, Mahaman
Tidjani-Alou, Leonardo Villalón.
Bibliographie de base pour les échanges / Core readings for discussion:
5. Mary, André and Laurent Fourchard. 2005. "Introduction: Réveils religieux et nations
missionnaires" In Entreprises religieuses transnationales en Afrique de l’Ouest. Dir. Laurent
Fouchard, André Mary et René Otayek. Paris: Karthala, 9-18.
6. Mary, André and Laurent Fourchard. 2005. “Introduction: Religious Awakening and Missionary
Nations. In Entreprises religieuses transnationales en Afrique de l’Ouest. Dir. Laurent
Fouchard, André Mary et René Otayek. Paris: Karthala, 19-28
7. Ranger, Terence O. 1986. Religious Movements and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. African
Studies Review 29:2 (June), pp. 1-69.
8. Otayek, René and Benjamin Soares. 2007. "Introduction: Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa."
In Islam in Muslim Politics in Africa. Ed. Benjamin F. Soares and René Otayek. New York, NY:
Palgrave Macmillian, 1-26.
9. Otayek, René and Benjamin Soares. 2009. "Introduction: Islam et politique en Afrique." In
Islam, État et société en Afrique. Éd. René Otayek et Benjamin Soares. Paris: Karthala, 9-44.
10. Ellis, Stephen and Gerrie ter Haar. 2013. “Religion and Politics.” In Nic Cheeseman, David
Anderson, and Andrea Scheibler, eds. The Routledge Handbook of African Politics. London,
Routledge, 121-132.
TOME 2 / Volume 2
THEME 3:
“Religion et État: perspectives comparatives sur la laïcité et les religions d’Etat”
“Religion and the state: Comparative perspectives on secularism and state religions”
Date: mercredi, 3 juillet / Wednesday, July 3rd
Présentateur / Presenter:
Répondant 1:
Respondent 2:
Mahaman Tidjani-Alou
Augustin Loada
Einas Ahmed
Bibliographie de base pour les échanges / Core readings for discussion:
4. Kuru, Ahmet. 2007. “Passive and Assertive Secularism: Historical Conditions, Ideological
Struggles, and State Policies toward Religion.” World Politics 59, 568-94.
5. Ahmed, Einas. 2007. "Political Islam in Sudan: Islamists and the Challenge of State Power
(1989-2004)." In Islam in Muslim Politics in Africa. Ed. Benjamin F. Soares and René Otayek.
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillian, 189-208.
6. Ahmed, Einas. 2009. "L’islam politique au Soudan: Les islamistes à l’épreuve de la direction de
l’État (1989-2004)." In Islam, État et société en Afrique. Éd. René Otayek et Benjamin Soares.
Paris: Karthala, 293-326.
Bibliographie supplémentaire / Supplementary readings:
1. A Stepan, Alfred. 2012. "Rituals of Respect: Sufis and Secularists in Senegal in Comparative
Perspective." Comparative Politics 44:4, 379-401.
2. Jok Madut Jok, “South Sudan: Building a Diverse Nation,” in Sudan after Separation: New
Approaches to a New Region, edited by the Heinrich-Boll Foundation and Toni Weis (Berlin:
Heinrich-Boll Stiftung), pp. 58-62.
THEME 4:
“La problématique du pluralisme et du dialogue interreligieux”
“The politics of religious pluralism and inter-religious relations”
Date: mercredi, 3 juillet / Wednesday, July 3rd
Présentateur / Presenter:
Répondant 1:
Respondent 2:
Einas Ahmed
Mahaman Tidjani-Alou
Leonardo Villalón
Bibliographie de base pour les échanges / Core readings for discussion:
1. Lasseur, Maud and Cedric Mayrargue. 2003. « Le Religieux Dans La Pluralisation
Contemporaine. Eclatement Et Concurrence », in Pluralisation religieuse, entre éclatement et
concurrence, special issue of Politique Africaine, 123 : 5-26.
2. Longman, Timothy. 2005. "Churches and Social Upheaval in Rwanda and Burundi: Explaining
Failures to Oppose Ethnic Violence." In Religion and African Civil Wars. Ed. Niels Kastfelt.
New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 82-101.
3. Finke, Roger and Rodney Stark. 1988. "Religious Economies and Sacred Canopies: Religious
Mobilization in American Cities, 1906." American Sociological Review 53: 41-49.
4. Salomon, Noah. 2011. “The Ruse of Law: Legal Equality and the Problem of Citizenship in a
Multi religious Sudan.” In After Secular Law, edited by Winnifred F. Sullivan, Robert A. Yelle,
and Mateo Taussig-Rubbo, pps. 200-220. Stanford Law Books.
Bibliographie supplémentaire / Supplementary readings:
5. Iveković, I. 2002. “Nationalism and the Political Use and Abuse of Religion: The Politicization
of Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Islam in Yugoslav Successor States.” Social Compass 49: 523536. 14pp.
6. Wasara, Samson S. and Guma K. Komey. 2008. "Challenges for Interfaith relations in Sudan", in
Striving in Faith: Christians and Muslims in Africa, editied by Anne N. Kubai and Tarekegen
Adebo. Uppsala, Sweden: Life & Peace Institute. p.37-55.
7. ElTayeb, Mohamed Saeed. 2010. “The Limitations on Critical Thinking on Religious Issues
under Article 20 of the ICCPR and its Relation to Freedom of expression”, Religion and Human
Rights 5, pp. 119-135, Martinus Nijhof Publishers.
8. An-Naim, Abullahi. 1987. “Religious Minorities Under Islamic Law and the Limits of Cultural
Relativism,” Human Rights Quarterly 9:1: 1-18.
TOME 3 / Volume 3
THEME 5:
“Religion et démocratie”
“Religion and democracy”
Date: vendredi, 5 juillet / Friday, July 5th
Présentateur / Presenter:
Répondant 1:
Respondent 2:
Leonardo Villalón
Augustin Loada
Kenneth Wald
Bibliographie de base pour les échanges / Core readings for discussion:
1. Stepan, Alfred. 2000. “Religion, Democracy, and the ‘Twin Tolerations.’" Journal of
Democracy 11:4: 37-57.
2. Constantin, Franҫois and Christian Coulon. 1997. "Religion et démocratie: Introduction à une
problématique africaine." In Religion et transition démocratique en Afrique. Dir. Franҫois
Constantin and Christian Coulon. Paris: Karthala, 9-24.
3. Philippe Denis, La montée de la religion traditionnelle africaine dans l’Afrique du Sud
démocratique. Histoire, monde et cultures religieuses 2007/3 - n°3, pages 121 à 135.
4. Verba, Sidney, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry Brady, and Norman H. Nie. 1993. “Race,
Ethnicity and Political Resources: Participation in the United States.” British Journal of Political
Science 23: 473-497. 25pp. [abridged]
5. Antoine, Agnès. 2006. “Démocratie et religion : le point de vue Tocquevillien,” The Tocqueville
Review/La Revue Tocqueville, Vol. XXVII, n° 2 .
6. Driessen, Michael D. “Public Religion, Democracy, and Islam: Examining the Moderation
Thesis in Algeria.” Comparative Politics, January 2012.
Bibliographie supplémentaire / Supplementary readings:
7. Ledure, Yves (R.P.). 2005. “Religion et démocratie” Esprit et Vie, n°124, 2005, available at:
http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/33939/ANM_2004_323.pdf?sequence=
8. Bayat, Asef. 2007. "Islam and Democracy: The Preverse Charm of an Irrelevant Question.",
Chapter one of: Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1-15.
9. Kendhammer, Brandon. 2013. “The Sharia Controversy in Northern Nigeria and the Politics of
Islamic Law in New and Uncertain Democracies.” Comparative Politics 45:3 (April).
10. Villalón, Leonardo A. “From Argument to Negotiation: Constructing Democracies in Muslim
West Africa.” In Comparative Politics 42:4 (July 2010), pp. 375-393.
11. Toulabor, Comi M. 1997. “Mouvements religieux et processus de démocratisation au Ghana.” In
Transitions Démocratiques Africaines. Jean-Pascal Daloz and Patrick Quantin, eds. Paris:
Karthala.
THEME 6:
“Religion et comportements politiques”
“Religion and individual political behavior”
Date: lundi, 8 juillet / Monday, July 8th
Présentateur / Presenter:
Répondant 1:
Respondent 2:
Augustin Loada
Einas Ahmed
Kenneth Wald
Bibliographie de base pour les échanges / Core readings for discussion:
7. Michelat, Guy and Michel Simon. 1977. Classe, religion et comportement politique, Paris,
Presses de la Fondation nationale de sciences po. (Extracts: Introduction, pp. 1-10; "Religion et
politique," pp. 361 to 382; "Niveau d'intégration religieuse et comportement politique" pp. 383 to
415l and Conclusions, pp. 459-467.)
8. Michelat, Guy and Michel Simon. 1977. “Religion, Class and Politics.” In Comparative Politics.
Vol. 10, No. 1, Special Issue on "Politics and Society in Contemporary France" (Oct., 1977), pp.
159-186
9. Smidt, Corwin E., Lyman A. Kellstedt and James L. Guth. 2009. "The Role of Religion in
American Politics: Explanatory Theories and Associated Analytical and Measurement Issues." In
Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics. Ed. Corwin E. Smidt, Lyman A. Kellstedt
and James L. Guth. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 3-42.
Bibliographie supplémentaire / Supplementary readings:
1. Wald, Kenneth D. and Corwin E. Smidt. 1993. "Measurement Strategies in the Study of Religion
and Politics." In Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics. Ed. David C. Leege
and Lyman A. Kellstedt. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 26-49.
2. Bréchion, Pierre, Annie Laurent et Pascal Perrineau. 2000. Les cultures politiques des Français,
Presses de Sciences Po. [extract: Chapitre 9. Intégration au catholicisme, attitudes éthicopolitiques et comportement électoral]
TOME 4 / Volume 4
THEME 7:
“Le genre et la sexualité sous le prisme de la religion”
“Religion and the politics of gender and sexuality”
Date: mardi, 9 juillet / Tuesday, July 9th
Présentateur / Presenter:
Répondant 1:
Respondent 2:
Leonardo Villalón
Einas Ahmed
Augustin Loada
Bibliographie de base pour les échanges / Core readings for discussion:
10. Andersen, Kristi. 1988. “Sources of Pro-Family Belief.” Political Psychology 9: 229-243. 15 pp.
11. Buss, Doris and Didi Herman. 2003. Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right in
International Politics. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Chapter 6: The Gender
Agenda, 100-128. 29pp.
12. Soares, Benjamin. “Family Law Reform in Mali: Contentious Debates and Elusive Outcomes.”
In Badran, M., ed. Gender and Islam in Africa: Right, Sexuality, and Law, pp. 263-290.
13. Brossier, Marie. 2004. “Les débats sur le Code de la famille au Sénégal : une mise en question
des fondements de l’autorité légitime ?”, Politique Africaine, Dec. 2004, Paris, pp.78‐ 98. In
Special issue: “Sénégal 2000‐ 2004, l’alternance et ses contradictions.”
14. Wald, Kenneth D. and Graham Glover. 2007. "Theological Perspectives on Gay Unions: The
Uneasy Marriage of Religion and Politics." In The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage. Ed. Craig
Rimmerman and Clyde Wilcox. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 105-129.
Bibliographie supplémentaire / Supplementary readings:
1. Himmelstein, Jerome. 1986. "The Social Bases of Antifeminism: Religious Networks and
Culture." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 25: 1-15. 15 pp.
2. Jeppi, Shamil, Ebrahim Moosa, and Richard Roberts. 2010. "Introduction: Muslim Family in
sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges." In Muslim Family Law in
sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges. Shamil Jeppi, Ebrahim
Moosa, and Richard Roberts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 13-60.
AUTRES LECTURES / OTHER READINGS:
Session pour le Développement Professionnel : “Publication d’une Recherche
Scientifique”Professional Development Session: “Publishing Academic Research”
Présentateur 1:
Presenter 2:


Augustin Loada
Kenneth Wald
Myers, Charles T. 2004. "A Short Tour of Book Publishing for Political Scientists." PS:
Political Science and Politics 37: 489-491.
Cott, Donna Lee Van. 2005. "A Graduate Student's Guide to Publishing Scholarly Journal
Articles." PS: Political Science and Politics 38: 741-743.
Session pour le Développement Professionnel: “Elaboration d’une Requête de Subvention pour la
Recherche”
Professional Development Session: “Grant Writing”
Présentateur 1:
Presenter 2:

Einas Ahmed
Leonardo Villalón
Przeworski, Adam and Frank Salomon. 1995 rev. “The Art of Writing Proposals.” Social
Science Reseach Council
Méthodes de Recherche: “Travail de Terrain et Méthode Qualitative”
Research Methods: “Fieldwork and Qualitative Methods”
Présentateur 1:
Presenter 2:
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
Mahaman Tidjani-Alou
Leonardo Villalón
Olivier de Sardan J-P, La politique de terrain. Enquête, 1, 1995, pp. 71-112 (EHESS)
Bayard de Volo, Lorraine and Edward Schatz (2004). From the Inside Out: Ethnographic
Methods in Political Research. PS: Political Science and Politics, pp 267-271.
Méthodes de Recherche: “Enquête d’Opinion”
Research Methods: “Survey Research”
Présentateur 1:
Presenter 2:
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
Augustin Loada
Kenneth Wald
Calfano, Brian Robert and Paul A. Djupe. 2009. "God Talk: Religious Cues and Electoral
Support." Political Research Quarterly 62: 329-339.
Miles, William F. S. and David A. Rochefort. 1991. “Nationalism Versus Ethnic Identity in SubSaharan Africa.” The American Political Science Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 393-403