Sémantique populaire du détournement dans les associations de développement en pays mossi (Burkina Faso)

Laurent, Pierre‐Joseph

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“…Les Lions d’Afrique font ainsi du projet caritatif du Club un prétexte pour regrouper et motiver leurs affiliés, les réunions deviennent un rituel par la ferveur et le respect strict des règles et codes. Considérer les réunions comme un rite permet d’interpréter comme une attitude rusée (Laurent, 1998), l’apparent mimétisme des leaders africains qui s’affilient à une association occidentale. Lorsque les Lions Africains se réunissent et se soumettent aux règles et préceptes émanant d’une direction basée aux États-Unis, c’est finalement pour s’en affranchir.…”

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“…Cette dualité visible/secrète n’est pas surprenante si l’on songe à ce que Geschiere disait à propos des côtés clair et sombre de la sorcellerie, (Geschiere, 2005[1995]: VII). Empiriquement, je peux relier la notion de famille à une association telle que le Lions Clubs qui crée une famille à l’image des groupes non–lignager pentecôtistes (Laurent, 2003), ce qui leur permet de se détacher de leur ancien ancrage social, trouvant une famille d’accueil, un « groupe de la sortie du groupe » (Laurent, 1998, 2007).…”

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Le Lions Clubs au Bénin : un club caritatif qui pratique une liturgie à dessein politique

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2017

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The comparison of meetings and protocol of the Lions Clubs in a ritual, offers an opportunity to measure the political impact of this community and the effect the meetings have outside the circle. The study also allows us to understand the importance of the Lions Clubs in Africa, where it cannot be reduced to a meeting of wealthy people seduced by the opulence and the opportunity to find new sources of profit. Lions are compared by population to diplomats because of their appearance, wearing uniforms and medals and are received by the highest political authorities from other nations. In the West this behaviour is seen as a caricature of governance but for members the meetings offer occasions for work and friendship. This appears like political religion because of the hidden goal: to conquer the independence of Africa in the Lions Clubs. This objective is facilitated by the explosion in the number of African members showing the social movement that rages at the top levels of society. The African elite, by its transformation of charity into political rally, proposes a new form of pan-Africanism.

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Le Lions Clubs au Bénin : un club caritatif qui pratique une liturgie à dessein politique

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2017

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“…The point is that Toessin obtained the school, while nearby villages, which built no diguettes and had few links to external projects, did not. Development requires a sales job (Biershenk et al 2000;Laurent 1996). When one talks of supporting livelihood security and locally appropriate forms of development, the appropriation of such benefits should form part of our analytical and practical interest in how rural communities 'get by' and 'get on' (Ellis 2000).…”

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Beyond Territory and Scarcity: Exploring Conflicts over Natural Resource Management

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2006

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“…5 The novelty is related to the therapeutic attitude. This plays out like a co-operation between the wolf and the lamb, that is, between the pastors and the faith-healers, who co-operate without eliminating all competition and antagonism, since one group characterizes the other as false prophets.…”

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“…The thesis that I shall defend argues that the healing services offered by the Assemblies of God-which does its recruiting essentially among the urban poor and rural peasants-are mainly based on a therapeutic technique which is composed of two parts, and which as a whole is capable of taking charge of various ailments related to the rapid transformations of the relationships between individuals and the people around them, or between people and the groups they belong to. 5 The novelty is related to the therapeutic attitude. This plays out like a co-operation between the wolf and the lamb, that is, between the pastors and the faith-healers, who co-operate without eliminating all competition and antagonism, since one group characterizes the other as false prophets.…”

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The Faith-healers of the Assemblies of God in Burkina Faso: Taking Responsibility for Diseases Related to “Living Together”

Laurent¹

2001

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The author shows that curing and healing services which are offered by the Assemblies of God Church (Pentecostal church) in Burkina Faso-a church which recruits mostly low-income urban dwellers and rural peasants-are based primarily on a therapeutic procedure that has two parts, which together are able to treat various ailments that are in turn connected to transformations occurring in the nature of the relations between people and their families, friends and neighbours, or between individuals and the various groups they belong to. The problem is to show that prayers for deliverance from demons, far from being reducible to a miraculous event, actually form part of a long conversion process. Through collaboration between pastors and certain faith-healers, a new therapeutic attitude arises, which is coherent, effective and well adapted to the current transformations of everyday lifeand more doctrinally mixed in its representations than the official Pentecostal position could admit.L'auteur montre que l'offre de guérison des Assemblées de Dieu du Burkina Faso (Eglise pentecôtiste)-qui recrutent essentiellement dans le monde populaire urbain et la paysannerie-renvoie avant tout à un dispositif thérapeutique composé de deux scènes en mesure de prendre en charge les troubles divers, liés aux transformations des rapports de l'individu avec son entourage dans ses différents réseaux d'appartenance. Il s'agit de montrer que la prière de délivrance des démons, loin de se réduire à un événement miraculeux, participe plutôt à un long processus de conversion. Au travers de la collaboration pragmatique entre des pasteurs et certains croyantsguérisseurs, surgit une posture thérapeutique originale, à savoir cohérente, efficace, adaptée aux transformations des cadres de vie, et plus métissée dans ses expressions que la doctrine officielle pentecôtiste ne le laisse entendre.Prayers for deliverance from demons-harmful spirits-have always been part of the ritual of the Assemblies of God in Burkina Faso. However, the practice of making these prayers as a group on a weekly basis occurred and spread only during the 1980s, at the same time as the appearance of the phenomenon of faith-healers, minor prophets on the margins of Pentecostal orthodoxy.

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Sémantique populaire du détournement dans les associations de développement en pays mossi (Burkina Faso)

Cited by 6 publications

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Le Lions Clubs au Bénin : un club caritatif qui pratique une liturgie à dessein politique

Le Lions Clubs au Bénin : un club caritatif qui pratique une liturgie à dessein politique

Beyond Territory and Scarcity: Exploring Conflicts over Natural Resource Management

The Faith-healers of the Assemblies of God in Burkina Faso: Taking Responsibility for Diseases Related to “Living Together”

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