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On croit savoir quelque chose sur le protestantisme français. On ouvre le beau livre d'ÉMILE-G. LÉONARD et l'on s'aperçoit qu'on ne sait rien du tout. L'aventure n'est pas unique, mais elle est rare.Je dis : « le protestantisme français ». En fait le livre s'intitule : Le Protestant français, ce qui n'est pas la même chose ; je ne puis feindre de l'ignorer puisqu'Émile-G. Léonard veut bien rappeler que je suis pour quelque chose dans la genèse de cet ouvrage. En fait, j'aurais bien voulu le publier dans l'une de nos collections Annales, mais, en ces temps de pénurie généralisée, le sentiment dispose plus vite que la raison n'exécute. L'apparition de ce beau travail ne fait qu'accroître mes regrets ; mais après tout, l'essentiel est qu'il ait vu le jour.

To day, we know that protestant participations to the French 1905' s law are numerous, though it seemed there were no known protestant politics on the subject and though they are scarcely commented by the laïc tradition and scarcely analised by professionnal historians. Some great laïcs, from protestant origin, as Francis de Pressenssé or Ferdinand Buisson, as well as "orthodox evangelicals" (Réveillaud, Méjan) brought some of their skills to the law, as it is accepted now, as far as Francis de Pressenssé is concerned, Maurice Larkin's Church and State after the Dreyfus Affair, being translated thirty years after it was first published in Great-Britain. Ferdinand Buisson'role is less known, though Capéran have said that nobody in France had played such a role as his in the separation. The second part of this paper discusses the subject of Ferdinand Buisson's role in the separation as a process, and of the political effects of socialist instrumentalisation of antiprotestant discourse on the invention of the (French) myth of a franco-french
"laïcité" pattern, free of any foreign influence.

A review essay on Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers (Oxford U Press, in publication [see listing IRPS No. 52]). Themes of corporate morality new to the literature of business ethics & morality are used to show residues of the Protestant ethic in corporate ethics. Seven Protestant motifs are identified in Jackall's description of modern corporations, & elaborated, showing the ultimate outcome of bureaucracy, to be a transvaluation of religious norms, ethics, & morality. Bureaucracy is argued to be a decivilizing process that tends to decrease an individual's spontaneous expressiveness. Bureaucratization also acts as a destabilizing force on individual identity & institutions, thus generating a thanatotic ethos. This idea is explored with reference to the death instinct & its two key mechanisms: inertia & the repetition compulsion. Puritan residues in bureaucracy are explored in the emasculation of heroism in politics, & in the ethic of delegated responsibility, & Goffmanian images of front stage & backstage are applied to corporate analysis. Questions are raised about the expression of self, & the character structure of the modern person. C. Grindle

This article assesses 'Rotten Protestants', or Protestant home rulers in Ulster, by means of an analysis of the Ulster Liberal Association, from its founding in 1906 until its virtual disappearance by 1918. It argues that Ulster Liberalism has been neglected or dismissed in Irish historiography, and that this predominantly Protestant, pro-home rule organization, with its origins in nineteenth-century radicalism, complicates our understanding of the era. It has previously been argued that this tradition did not really exist: this article uses prosopography to demonstrate the existence of a significant group of Protestant Liberal activists in Ulster, as well as to uncover their social, denominational, and geographic profile. Ulster Liberals endured attacks and boycotting; this article highlights the impact of this inter-communal violence on this group. Although Ulster Liberalism had a substantial grassroots organization, it went into sharp decline after 1912. This article describes how the third home rule crisis, the outbreak of the Great War, and the Easter Rising of 1916 prompted a hardening of attitudes which proved detrimental to the survival of a politically dissenting tradition within Ulster Protestantism.

Irena Backus offers an examination of Leibniz as both scholar and theologian, illuminating the relationship between metaphysics and theology in Leibniz's handling of key theological issues of his time: predestination, sacred history, the Eucharist, and efforts for a union between Lutherans and Catholics and between Lutherans and Calvinists