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L'article se propose, en tenant compte du développement des études simmeliennes, de saisir les relations entre sociologie pure du phénomène religieux et analyse de la catégorie religieuse comme cadre général de formation de la réalité. Une première partie rappelle les grands thèmes de la sociologie pure de Simmel. La seconde partie précise les étapes qui mènent à la monographie de 1906 puis commente l'idée centrale de Die Religion : la religion est la mise en forme d'une religiosité diffuse présente dans de nombreuses manifestations ou relations sociales, qui ne sont pas à strictement parler religieuses. Une approche de certains phénomènes sociaux en terme de religiosité, l'étude des conditions du passage de la religiosité diffuse à la religion, l'approche enfin des analyses par Simmel de la situation religieuse de son temps complètent le tableau et illustrent l'intérêt d'un nouveau regard critique des sociologues des religions sur une oeuvre encore trop méconnue.

Regardless of the role religion plays in the world today, ie despite the significant deprivatization of faith in the sociocultural space & in politics, contemporary Czech sociology of religion is in rather poor shape. The author presents a number of factors to explain this, including the legacy of the communist regime, & low levels of church attendance in the Czech Republic, the latter having been erroneously interpreted as non-religiosity. But the author focuses mainly one other reason: the discordant legacy of Czech pre-communist sociology of religion & the neighboring field of social studies. Two different traditions of the subject are identified - the 'profane' sociology of religion, founded by T. G. Masaryk, & Catholic religious sociology. Although the former legacy declared itself non-religious & even anti-clerical, in the case of many of its followers this claim was only partially true. In the 1930s & 1940s, when they (especially Prague's sociological school, which formed a certain opposition to Masaryk) turned more toward Durkheimian attitudes, they emphasized, for example, their own religious experience as a necessary tool for understanding piety. On the other hand, Catholic religious sociology was closely related to church activism, policy, & contemporary social work, ie, strictly conservative & anti-modern. Its way of understanding modern society was discounted by the former group of scholars, though to at least some degree, the two legacies shared similar methodological approaches. Both certainly seem outdated today, but their theoretical & methodological discussions & their findings remain of importance. Consequently, a re-thinking of these legacies & their theoretical backgrounds is still significant for the sociology of religion today.