Jean-Paul Willaime


Jean-Paul Willaime is a French sociologist specialized in contemporary Protestantism, Christian ecumenism, Secularism and religions, theories and methods in the sociology of religions.

Cursus

Jean-Paul Willaime obtained a PhD in religious science and in sociology in the University of Strasbourg. He is the Director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, is owner since 1992 of the studies management "History and Sociology of Protestantism" at the Sorbonne. He is also Director of the Institut européen en sciences des religions, member of the Groupe Société, Religions, Laïcités, and since 2007 President of the Société internationale de sociologie des religions. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Archives de sciences sociales des religions, Social Compass and the Journal of Contemporary Religion. He developed the theory of ultramodernism around the issue of practices of secularism in France and Europe. He was awarded the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

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