thesis

Societe et comportements religieux des laiques dans le morvan central et meridional et ses marges (1830-1914)

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1995

Edit

Institution:

Dijon

Disciplines:

Authors:

Directors:

Abstract EN:

Though religious behaviour patterns in morvan are influenced by chief national events, they are ascribed to the specific structures of morvan, too : agricultural and forestry activity; prevailing peasantry and great ascendancy of landowners of large estates; important migratory flux betyween morvan and paris; numerous hamlets and villages where traditions and memory are kept; great sociability. Consequently, within chief secular trends (decreasing number of churchgoers, traditional religious attendances), religious behaviour patterns concerning church attendance, rites, beliefs, clergy, parish properties, get diversified according to local parameters. Three main behaviour patterns are derived from this diversity : those of forestry uplands, those of surroundings area, those of market towns.

Abstract FR:

Si les comportements religieux du morvan sont influences par les grands evenements nationaux, ils osnt egalement en etroite relation avec les structures et caracteres propres du morvan: economie agricole et forestiere; paysannerie majoritaire et forte emprise locale des grands proprietaires: importants mouvements migratoires entre le morvan et paris: peuplement en hameaux et villages ou se maintiennent memoire et traditions: forte sociabilite. Aussi, a l'interieur de grandes tendances seculaires,(declin de la pratique, conformisme saisonnier), les comportements a l'egard de la pratique, des rites, des croyances, du clerge, du temporel, se diversifient en fonction de parametres locaux. De cette diversite se degagent trois grands types de comportements: ceux du haut morvan forestier, de ses marges, des petits centres urbains.