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Often studied in the context of political developments and the shift from an alleged representative democracy to a participatory democracy, the issue of participation is discussed here in terms of anthropological change. Requirements and expectations of participation are found in many areas that exceed the political sphere, from the business world and its quality circles to the production of self-assembly goods involving the buyer's experience. This extension of the field of participation is based on a number of anthropological presuppositions, which are supposed to give empowerment to actors and update their skills and abilities. This paper argues that the configuration of many recent social arrangements tends increasingly to adjust to this new anthropological paradigm. This is the case for political participation, but also for new social policies, empowerment training, educational objectives, development and health policies. Returning more specifically on the issue of political participation, the paper shows how this new anthropological paradigm reconfigures the issue of expertise and, hence the balance between spaces where participatory democracy can take place and those that remain under technocratic expertise.
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ABSTRACTThe vision of the human person in Biblical discourse does not present a composite of body and soul, but a being that the pertinent vocabulary describes under different angles of perception. Thus the body designates the whole human subject, under the aspects to be determined by the contexts and not by the definitions of an anthropology foreign to the text. A re-reading in this sense of the declarations of Paul and of the corporeal experience of Jesus in the gospel narratives reveals the inadequacy of some of our theological reflections on " matters of the flesh. " It also poses the question of the status of Hebraic anthropology in the discourses that we construct from the Bible.