This paper offers to think about the problems faced by a society confronted with the presence - real or fantasized - of the « enemy within ». In this society, the identification of the other and the self-presentation do not only serve to protect the social honor but are matters of life and death. What are the skills mobilized for identifying the "suspects"? The wars of Religion (1562-1598) can help to think of a society confronted with sudden violence and, just like the terrorism, from the inside of the community.
Volume: 1 | 2017 - Facing the challenge of the event in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Section: Articles
Published on: May 19, 2017
Accepted on: May 19, 2017
Submitted on: May 19, 2017
Keywords: terrorism,France,civil wars,confessional coexistence,history,wars of religion, guerras de religion,historia, coexistencia confessional, guerras civiles, Francia, terrorisme,coexistence confessionnelle,terrorisme,guerres civiles,guerres de Religion,histoire,[SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology