Sébastien Fath
Encyclopedia
Sebastien Fath is a French professional historian and a Ph.D at the Sorbonne
University. Also trained in Sociology, he is the main French specialist in the study of Evangelical Protestantism
. Author of fourteen books, he is a permanent researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is a full member of the GSRL (Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités), a research team working on religion and secularism. As a social scientist and a citizen, cross-cultural reflexion on Civil Society, Politics and Religion is his focus.
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
University. Also trained in Sociology, he is the main French specialist in the study of Evangelical Protestantism
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:...
. Author of fourteen books, he is a permanent researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is a full member of the GSRL (Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités), a research team working on religion and secularism. As a social scientist and a citizen, cross-cultural reflexion on Civil Society, Politics and Religion is his focus.
Experience (since 1998)
- 1998: Doctoral Thesis (Ph.D) in « History of religions and belief-systems » (EPHE, SorbonneSorbonneThe Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
), directed by Prof. Jean-Paul WillaimeJean-Paul WillaimeJean-Paul Willaime is a French sociologist specialized in contemporary Protestantism, Christian ecumenism, Secularism and religions, theories and methods in the sociology of religions.-Cursus:...
. Title: Resident Aliens ? Sociology and History of Baptist implantation, 1810-1950. Another Way of Being a Christian in France. - 1999: Enters the CNRS at the CR2 level (admission rank : 4th, 38th section), statutory member of the GSRL research team
- 2004-05: Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH, University of Edinburgh), SCOTLAND. Teaches Honour Courses in Professor James McMillan's seminar ( School of History and Classics)
- 2002-05: In charge of a GSRL research program on "Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism"
- 2006-09: In charge of a GSRL research program on « Religion and religious minorities in ultramodernity »
- 2010-13: In charge (along with Martine Cohen) of a GSRL research program on religious and secular mutations in the Parisian area
Main books
- Fascicule de méthodologie d'histoire et sociologie des religions à l'époque contemporaine. Appliqué au protestantisme, Paris, EPHE, 1997 (110p)
- L'Iran et de Gaulle. Chronique d'un rêve inachevé, Paris, ed. Eurorient, 1999
- Une autre manière d'être chrétien en France. Socio-histoire de l'implantation baptiste (1810-1950), Genève, Labor et Fides, 2001
- Les baptistes en France (1810-1950), Faits, dates et documents, Excelsis, Charols, 2002
- Billy Graham, pape protestant ?, Paris, Albin Michel, 2002
- Les protestants, Paris, le Cavalier bleu, 2003
- La diversité évangélique (ed.), Excelsis, Charols, 2003
- Dieu bénisse l'Amérique, la religion de la Maison Blanche, Paris, Seuil, 2004
- Militants de la Bible aux États-Unis, Évangéliques et fondamentalistes du Sud, Paris, Autrement, 2004
- Le protestantisme évangélique, un christianisme de conversion (ed.), Turnhout, Brépols, 2004
- Du ghetto au réseau, les protestants évangéliques en France de 1800 à 2005, Genève, Labor et Fides, 2005
- Dieu XXL, la révolution des megachurches, Paris, Autrement, 2008
- Protestantisme évangélique et valeurs (ed.), Excelsis, Charols, 2010
- Dieu change en ville. Religion, espace, immigration (ed., avec Lucine Endelstein et Séverine Mathieu), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2010
Publications in English
- 2003. "A forgotten missionary link between France and Britain: the role of the Baptist Continental Society in France between 1831 and 1836", London Baptist Quarterly, vol. 40, July, 2003 : 133-151
- 2005. "Evangelical Protestantism in France : an example of Denominational Recomposition?", Sociology of ReligionSociology of religionThe sociology of religion concerns the role of religion in society: practices, historical backgrounds, developments and universal themes. There is particular emphasis on the recurring role of religion in all societies and throughout recorded history...
, 2005, vol.66/4 : 399-418 - 2006. "The Impact of Charismatic Christianity on Traditional Baptist Identity", in Ian M. Randall, Toivo Pilli and Anthony Cross, Baptist Identities, International Studies from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries, London, PaternosterPaternosterA paternoster or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping. Passengers can step on or off at any floor they like...
: 77-91 - 2007. "American Civil Religion and George W. Bush Jr.", in Mark Noll and Luke Harlow (ed), Religion and American Politics From the Colonial Period to the Present, Oxford University PressOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, Second edition, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press : 393-400 - 2007. "Putting God into the City : Protestants in France", in Alec G. Hargreaves (ed), Politics and Religion in France and the United States, Lanham, Lexington Books : 49-62
- 2008. « Empire's future religion : the hidden competition between postmillennial American expansionism and premillennial Evangelical Christianity », in Peter Hetzel et Ellis Benson (ed), Evangelicalism and Empire, Brazos Press : 120 -129