Bruno Étienne


Bruno Étienne was a French sociologist, freemason and a political analyst. He was a specialist of Algeria, Islam and anthropology of the religious and masonic fact.

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 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, Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard", 2003.
  • La voie de la main nue : Initiation et karaté-do, Paris, Dervy, 2004.
  • Être bouddhiste en France aujourd'hui, Paris, Hachette, 2004.
  • Heureux comme Dieu en France ? : La République face aux religions, Paris, Bayard, 2005.
  • Pour retrouver la parole : Le retour des frères, La Table Ronde, 2006.
  • La spiritualité maçonnique : Pour redonner du sens à la vie, Paris, Dervy, 2006.
  • Une voie pour l'occident'', Dervy 2000''