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Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Social Sciences, University of Fribourg ().
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What about the gift? Critique of the gift in Descola’s work
In Revue du MAUSS (2025/1 n° 65)
The gift of hospitality. When receiving is giving
- By Alain Caillé,
- Philippe Chanial,
- François Gauthier
- et al.
In Revue du MAUSS (2019/1 No 53)
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Roberte Hamayon : The Gift, Belief, and Play. An Homage to a Companion of the MAUSS
In Mauss international (2025/1 n° 5)
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In Revue du MAUSS (2025/1 n° 65)
What about the gift? Critique of the gift in Descola’s work
In Revue du MAUSS (2025/1 n° 65)
(Re)Creating the World at Burning Man : Play, the Gift, and Ritual Creativity
In Mauss international (2024/1 No 4)
Sonja Kmec, Robert Philippart, Antoinette Reuter (eds.), Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarregionen / Concession à perpétuité ? Cultures funéraires au Luxembourg et dans les régions voisines
Luxembourg, Capybarabooks, 2019, 352 pages.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2022/4 No 200)
Présentation. Storms on the identities
In Revue du MAUSS (2022/1 n° 59)
Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang, Re-enchanting Modernity. Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China
Durham, Londres, Duke University Press, 2020, 374 pages
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2021/4 No 196)
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In Revue du MAUSS (2021/1 No 57)
Sociology and religion: At its heart, in the margins… and now what?
In Revue du MAUSS (2020/2 No 56)
Marcel Mauss: Concrete division of sociology (1927)
In Revue du MAUSS (2020/2 No 56)
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- By Alain Caillé,
- Philippe Chanial,
- François Gauthier
- et al.
In Revue du MAUSS (2020/2 No 56)
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In Revue du MAUSS (2020/1 No 55)
What about violence? Discussing René Girard through the lens of Mauss and the gift
In Revue du MAUSS (2020/1 No 55)
Véronique Altglas, From Yoga to Kabbala. Religious exoticism and the logics of bricolage
New York, Oxford University Press, 2014, 393 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2019/4 No 188)
The extension of the halal domain
In L'Homme (2019/2 No 230)
“Welcome home !” Gift and hospitality at Burning Man
In Revue du MAUSS (2019/1 No 53)
The gift of hospitality. When receiving is giving
- By Alain Caillé,
- Philippe Chanial,
- François Gauthier
- et al.
In Revue du MAUSS (2019/1 No 53)
Ian Reader, Pilgrimage in the Marketplace
London, Routledge, coll. « Routledge studies in religion, travel, and tourism », 2014, 228 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2017/4 No 180)
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In Revue du MAUSS (2018/1 No 51)
Republicanism vs Liberalism. Secularity Regimes and their New Challenges
In Revue du MAUSS (2017/1 No 49)
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In Revue du MAUSS (2017/1 No 49)
From Nation-state to Market: The Transformations of Religion in the Global Era
In Revue du MAUSS (2017/1 No 49)
(Re)Creating the World at Burning Man. Play, Gift and Ritual Creativity
In Revue du MAUSS (2015/2 No 46)
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- By Jean-Philippe Acensi,
- Alain Caillé,
- Philippe Chanial,
- et al.
In Revue du MAUSS (2015/2 No 46)
Presentation: Consuming, Giving, Devoting to: The Dynamics of Consumption
- By Alain Caillé,
- Philippe Chanial,
- Bernard Cova,
- et al.
In Revue du MAUSS (2014/2 No 44)
The Symbolic Dynamics of Consumerism. Beyond the Merchandise Lies the Symbol and the Gift
In Revue du MAUSS (2014/2 No 44)
Eid, Paul Bosset, Pierre Milot, Micheline Lebel-Grenier, Sébastien (eds.). Appartenances religieuses, appartenance citoyenne. Un équilibre en tension
Quebec, Presses de l’Université Laval / Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse du Québec, 2009, 425 p.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2011/4 No 156)
From the Modern Myth Of Autonomy to the Heteronomy of Nature. Foundations for a Political Ecology
In Revue du MAUSS (2011/2 No 38)
Utilitarianism: Is It the Motor of History and at the Hearts of the Religious?
In L'Homme (2011/2 No 198-199)
Mauss and Religion
Mauss’s Posterity in Lévi-Strauss and Bataille (and Their Surpassing by Mauss)
In Revue du MAUSS (2010/2 No 36)
Stakes of a Theory of Religion beyond Girad’s Mirage: Critical Thinking on Camille Tarot's The Symbolic and the Sacred
In Revue du MAUSS (2008/2 No 32)
Bischoff, Jean-Louis. Tribus musicales, spiritualité et fait religieux. Enquête sur les mouvances rock, punk, skinhead, gothique, hardcore, techno, hip-hop
Paris, L’Harmattan, 2007, 291 p. (coll. "Univers musical”)
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2008/2 No 142)