Catholicisme, économie identitaire et affinités électives : Les coopératives basques comme groupements volontaires utopiques
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fr
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Ce document a été publié dans
Social Compass. 2002, vol. 49, n° 3, p. 393-411
SAGE Publications
Résumé en anglais
Basque cooperatives, as examples of utopian voluntary groups, are at the cross-roads between three normative systems: social economy, territorial identity and Christian belonging. Since the 1970s, the founding experience ...Lire la suite >
Basque cooperatives, as examples of utopian voluntary groups, are at the cross-roads between three normative systems: social economy, territorial identity and Christian belonging. Since the 1970s, the founding experience of Mondragón (Guipuzcoa) has spread and developed in the French Basque country in a way that reveals the power of the convergence between a religious reference (first as institutional support, later as a source of values, beliefs and capacities) and an identity-based motivation (helping to cement a nationalist political view and a selective re-reading of customs). More widely, the case of these co-operatives helps to criticize the extreme postulate that Western contemporary societies have undergone an overwhelming process of secularization.< Réduire
Mots clés
Pays Basque français
coopératives
économie sociale et solidaire
identité territoriale
catholicisme
religion
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