Bruno Étienne

Bruno Étienne (born in 1937 in La Tronche, Isère, died in Aix-en-Provence on 4 March 2009 after a cancer)^[1] was a French sociologist, freemason^[2] and a political analyst. He was a specialist of Algeria, Islam and anthropology of the religious and masonic fact.

Bruno Étienne
Born	(1937-11-06)6 November 1937 La Tronche, France
Died	4 March 2009(2009-03-04) (aged 71) Aix-en-Provence, France
Education	Lycée Thiers
Alma mater	Tunis University Sciences Po Aix
Occupation	Sociologist

Biography

Youth and Education

He graduated in Arabic-language and political sciences at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and the University of Tunis. Bruno Étienne was a researcher in Cairo and was a teacher at the ENA-Algiers, at the law faculty of Algiers and the universities of Casablanca and Marmara. He was also director of researches at the CNRS.

Teacher at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, he was the founder and was director until 2006 of the Observatoire du religieux. Bruno Étienne was also member of the Institut universitaire de France.

Bruno Étienne was the founder of a school of researchers in Aix-en-Provence including Raphaël Liogier, Jocelyne Cesari and Frank Fregosi. Gilles Kepel was also under his influence.

He was member of the Grand Orient de France^[3] and was a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

Publications

By Bruno Étienne

• L'islamisme radical, Paris, LGF, 1989.
• La France et l'islam, Paris, Hachette, 1989.
• Abdelkader, Paris, Hachette, 1994.
• Une grenade entrouverte, La Tour d'Aigue, Aube ed., 1999.
• L'Islam en France, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2000.
• Ils ont rasé la Mésopotamie : du droit de coloniser au devoir d'ingérence, Paris, Eshel, 2000.
• Les amants de l'apocalypse, La Tour d'Aigue, Aube ed., 2002.
• L'Initiation, Paris, Dervy, 2002.
• La France face aux sectes, Paris, Hachette, 2002.
• Islam, les questions qui fâchent, Paris, Bayard, 2003.
• Abd el-Kader : Le Magnanime (with François Pouillon), Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard" (n° 431), 2003.
• La voie de la main nue : Initiation et karaté-do, Paris, Dervy, 2004.
• Être bouddhiste en France aujourd'hui (with Raphaël Liogier), Paris, Hachette, 2004.
• Heureux comme Dieu en France ? : La République face aux religions, Paris, Bayard, 2005.
• Pour retrouver la parole : Le retour des frères (with Alain Bauer, Roger Dachez and Michel Maffesoli), La Table Ronde, 2006.
• La spiritualité maçonnique : Pour redonner du sens à la vie, Paris, Dervy, 2006.
• Une voie pour l'occident, Dervy 2000