Bruno Étienne

Bruno Étienne (born in 1937 in La Tronche, Isère, died in Aix-en-Provence on 4 March 2009 after a cancer) was a French sociologist, freemason and a political analyst. He was a specialist of Algeria, Islam and anthropology of the religious and masonic fact. He graduated in Arabic-language and political sciences at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and the University of Tunis. Bruno Étienne was a researcher in Cairo and was a teacher at the ENA-Algiers, at the law faculty of Algiers and the universities of Casablanca and Marmara. He was also director of researches at the CNRS. Teacher at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, he was the founder and was director until 2006 of the Observatoire du religieux. Bruno Étienne was also member of the Institut universitaire de France. Bruno Étienne was the founder of a school of researchers in Aix-en-Provence including Raphaël Liogier, Jocelyne Cesari and Frank Fregosi. Gilles Kepel was also under his influence. He was member of the Grand Orient de France and was a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. By Bruno Étienne L'islamisme radical, Paris, LGF, 1989. La France et l'islam, Paris, Hachette, 1989. Abdelkader, Paris, Hachette, 1994. Une grenade entrouverte, La Tour d'Aigue, Aube ed., 1999. L'Islam en France, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2000. Ils ont rasé la Mésopotamie : du droit de coloniser au devoir d'ingérence, Paris, Eshel, 2000. Les amants de l'apocalypse, La Tour d'Aigue, Aube ed., 2002. L'Initiation, Paris, Dervy, 2002. La France face aux sectes, Paris, Hachette, 2002. Islam, les questions qui fâchent, Paris, Bayard, 2003. Abd el-Kader : Le Magnanime (with François Pouillon), Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard" (n° 431), 2003. La voie de la main nue : Initiation et karaté-do, Paris, Dervy, 2004. Être bouddhiste en France aujourd'hui (with Raphaël Liogier), Paris, Hachette, 2004. Heureux comme Dieu en France ? : La République face aux religions, Paris, Bayard, 2005. Pour retrouver la parole : Le retour des frères (with Alain Bauer, Roger Dachez and Michel Maffesoli), La Table Ronde, 2006.