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This article explores the career of Serge Gagnon. It highlights the impact of his research on the field of religious history, and discusses the works and authors that inspired him. Basing his books on the qualitative analysis of a large body of documentation, Gagnon wrote in a lively and accessible style. He sought to reconstruct the history of pastoral care, of Catholic traditions and of the material living conditions experienced by Lower Canadian priests. Using a wide range of thoroughly analyzed examples, Gagnon showed how the clergy exercised its power. He also attempted to pinpoint the reasons why the communities he studied embraced the Church's message. Three major influences run through his works : the sociology of knowledge, French religious historiography and American sociologists critical of individualism and consumer society. The latter group echoed Gagnon's own anxiety about the contemporary Quebec lifestyle, which he contrasted to the Catholic customs that shaped the life of Lower Canadian communities.
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The article questions the relationship between research practice in history and undergraduate teaching, to identify the logic of certain pedagogical choices. The case study of a course in Ancient Greek history on ostracism is conducted using a qualitative approach within the didactic framework of problem-based learning. It relates the students' written and oral statements to their readings and to the professor's discourse, according to certain epistemological and historiographical issues in historical research on the political institution of ostracism. The analysis highlights a misunderstanding between the teacher and the students that stems from the invisibility of the divergent historiographical configurations (in the sense of Prost, 2006) that underlie their respective approaches.
Keywords: histoire, université, enseignement, recherche, didactique, history, university, teaching, research, didactics, historia, universidad, enseñanza, investigación, didáctica
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Historicity, understood as the rootedness of history in successive « presents », comprises the core of the discipline of history. Historicity also structures the discourse held by historians on their body of knowledge. By documenting the stances taken by Quebec historians on the historicity of their knowledge, this article sheds light on the epistemology of history currently cultivated by accomplished professionals from the field. In this way, the article dovetails recent efforts to debunk the empiricist myth of the historian as craftsman. It illustrates the importance of Fernand Dumont for the formalization of the question of the historicity of history in Quebec, and how his historical discourse was shaped by two conceptual frameworks : relativism and the field of history. These refer respectively to the determination of the present through the apprehension of the past and to the mediation of that determination.
Keywords: Savoir historien, discipline, épistémologie de l'histoire, historicité, historiens, historical knowledge, discipline, epistemology of history, historicity, historians
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Theories on social memory have greatly contributed to renew how to approach Christian historiography, particularly Luke's work (Gospel and Acts). They explain how, after the crisis of the sixties, which saw the disappearance of many apostolic figures, writing became imperative in order to stabilize the believing communities' identity. The author of Ad Theophilum writes a kerygmatic historiography, in which the kerygma forms the narrative and apostolic tradition becomes history. Passage from a religion of conversion (Paul's) to a religion of tradition can be detected. Three hints point to that: the way the title of apostle is used, the normative status given to apostolic teaching and the figure of Paul presented as a model.