Jean-Marc Larouche

Autonomie, justice et solidarité: l’actualité de la sociologie durkheimienne

To re-read Durkheim in the light of ‘socio-anthropological holism’ amounts to rejecting the factitious duality between individualism and determinism in order to better understand the fertile tension between, on the one hand, the normatively assumed Durkheimian aim of an emancipatory dynamic, guaranteeing individual rights and personal freedoms, and, on the other hand, the maintenance of a morally unified society, guided by a common ideal, now democratically debatable - in other words, sociological individualism and an individualistic society. Thus appears the Durkheimian figure of the ‘person,’ this modern individual being no longer a ferment of social dissolution, but the basis of a renewed association. At their respective levels, the social State and the intermediate bodies play a fundamental role in the effective realization of this normative ideal. Nevertheless, there remains the question of the specific form of ‘totalization’ achieved by the political sphere in modernity, and in particular its concretization in the form of a cosmopolitan-oriented republican nation-state, with irreducibly specific cultural and historical forms.

Les théories de la sécularisation Olivier Tschannen Coll. «Travaux de droit, d'économie, de sciences politiques, de sociologie et d'anthropologie», 165 Genève, Droz, 1992. 407 p

tion of particular gods. Christianity is presented as an overly spiritual religion requiring a spirituality more inclusive of the feminine, the instinctual and the demonic, while shamanism is offered as a tradition that provides direct access to a universal capacity for religious experience. Finally the author suggests Eckhart’s mystical notion of the soul giving birth to god adumbrates Jung’s idea of the Self archetype operating in the psyche. This book puts Jung’s idea of an insufficient

Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Les infirmières. De la vocation à la profession André Pétitat Montréal, Boréal, 1989. 408 p

While such a valuation of mainstream religion is valuable as a counterweight to exaggerated parochialism, it tends to be readily shared primarily by members of the dominant majority in a given society, in this instance by white and Protestant Ontarians. Other Ontarians, belonging to groups that were oppressed by the majority (e.g., Native people, Franco-Ontarians), are in less of hurry to rush to the

L'émergence de la sexologie au Québec. De la militance éthique à la sexosophie

La secularisation a souvent ete le maitre-mot pour rendre compte des changements socio-culturels qui ont affecte la societe qu6b6coise durant les annees soixante. Par IA, on entendait surtout un procesus d’autonomisation des diverses sph~res de 1’existence individuelle ou collective par rapport au referent religieux jusque IA dominant, le catholicisme’. Aujourd’hui, les sociologues de la religion, et ajouterions-nous de 1’6thique, interprètent de plus en plus la secularisation en termes de