Timeline – France: building secularism (1789-2015)
This timeline highlights the main dates of the history of secularism in France. It can be used as a teaching or presentation tool on the topic of secularism. Please note that all the documents...
Category: Education
2014-2015 HEMED online course : Religions and figurative depictions
For 25 centuries, the believers of different religions have had to ponder over three questions, regarding the topic of figurative representations: How to depict the transcendent? Is it possible and acceptable to depict with...
2013-2014 HEMED online course: Sciences and religions in the late modern period
The relationship between religion and science is a controversial topic. This course deals with what happened before the 17th century in Europe, focusing on three main aspects: how the ‘natural sciences and the humanities’...
2012-2013 HEMED online course: Honouring the gods in the Classical Mediterranean realm and on its fringes
During Classical Antiquity, the Mediterranean realm and its fringe was a very dynamic space in terms of human migrations, cultural and commercial exchanges, military and political conflicts. Often, religions were not at the core...
2011-2012 HEMED online course : Politics, Religion and State building (11th – 16th/19th centuries)
After the disappearance of the Western Roman Empire and the weakening of the Eastern Roman Empire, the relations between political and religious authorities have changed, thus creating the building of new states. If from...
2010-2011 HEMED online course: Migratory flows (16th–19th century)
Exiles, flights, forced or willing departures… In the Euro-Mediterranean space, there has been huge population movements in all the faith communities during the five last centuries. To grasp the phenomenon in context, four migration...
