L’expression du fait religieux dans le carnet mortuaire du Temps et du Monde : de la fin du XIXe siècle à aujourd’hui

• Main Author: Daniel Rivet
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA UMR 5190) 1994-01-01
• Series: Chrétiens et Sociétés
• Subjects: Le Temps; Le Monde; Funeral; Death announcement
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/chretienssocietes/104

The evolution of funeral announcements of Le Temps and of Le Monde, from 1889 till 1989, is considerable: from a preoccupation with a distinction indicated by a stereotyped language one passes to an expression much freer of the death, its circumstances and the feelings of the alive ones. The Muslims appear only in the 1960s, unlike Jews, overrepresented since the origin; the Protestant identity appears clearly. The percentage of the catholic religious burial increases until 1969, then flows back, while announcements, at first very combative then simply identical, are made more and more conspicuous, at the point to blur the borders between believers and unbelievers.