https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Era-of-Victims https://booksandideas.net/The-Era-of-Victims 2025-12-09T07:37:00Z text/html en David El Kenz Society Shoah violence genocide Cairn.info <p>Since the two World Wars, the victim has been raised to the status of a sacred and predominant figure in historical memory. The victim has become the new figure of the hero, thus setting a new and controversial example.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-driving-forces-behind-a-massacre https://booksandideas.net/The-driving-forces-behind-a-massacre 2025-04-01T05:30:00Z text/html en David El Kenz History anthropology violence Native American North America Cairn.info <p>The ritual massacre perpetrated by the Natchez against several hundred French settlers in Louisiana on 28 November 1729 was the starting point of a colonial violence against a tribe that lasted until its near disappearance.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Koran-and-Freedom-of-Thought https://booksandideas.net/The-Koran-and-Freedom-of-Thought 2008-12-23T08:03:20Z text/html en Dominique Avon & Abdellatif Idrissi Islam Philosophy religion la suite gauche Koran <p>There was an age when people had the right to criticise the entourage of the prophet, when religious controversy was carried out with a great freedom of tone, and when Islamic scholars glorified atheism. Today, all the many debates relating to Islam present one single dilemma: the abandonment of faith or fundamentalism. In this article, a linguist and a historian relate how the two “givens” of Islam – the integrity of Mohammed's entourage and the inimitability of the Koran – gradually became established over time. To them, Islam should be reconciled with the science of texts and freedom of thought.</p>