Ysé Tardan Masquelier
Doctorate in history of religions and religious anthropology (University of Paris-Sorbonne), former student of the Ecole du Louvre, holder of a license in Indian studies, former student of the French School of Yoga.
Teaches religious anthropology and comparative religions at the University of Paris Sorbonne; teaches the history of Hinduism at Languages O and at the Catholic Institute of Paris.
Directs the French School of Yoga and the editorial staff of the Revue française de Yoga.
Columnist in the World of Religions
Responsible for the creation of Planète Inde, a “human sciences-general public” collection on India published by Albin Michel
Source: Revue Etudes
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Anthropology of Religions
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Photographing Ordinary Islam
- Guillaume Chatagny
What does Islam concretely look like within a Muslim association? This is the question addressed by sociologist Guillaume Chatagny in this book, based on fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 w...
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Religious Tourism and Sustainability in the MENA Region
- Antonio Angelucci
Edited by Antonio Angelucci, Flavia Cortelezzi and Alessandro Cupri (Ledizioni, 2025), this volume offers a theoretical and methodological framework for religious tourism, a continuously expanding ...
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“An Anthropology of Imamite Love among Iranian Believers”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the volume honouring the Islamic-studies scholar Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, De la lettre à l'esprit (eds. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov and Mathieu Terrier, Brepols, 2025), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropol...
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Women, Agency and Religion: Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space
- Leïla Tauil
On the two Mediterranean shores, women’s agency is articulated by new social and legal actors who face the religious factor both as an asset and as a hindrance. This book explores how female ...
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What does the reformation of religion mean?
Lecture given by Mohamed El Haddad as part of the Anawati Chair at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo. Summary Plural Mohamed El Haddad presents his conception of religious re...
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Strangers with God. A Theology of Hospitality in the Three Abrahamic Religions
- Claudio Monge
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“A Religious Cosmopolitanism: The City of Qom in the Mirror of Transnational Circulations”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the collective volume Un Moyen-Orient ordinaire (eds. Thierry Boissière and Yoann Morvan, Diacritiques Éditions, 2022), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), devotes ...
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“The Power of Place, the Mediation of the Text: Anthropological Remarks on the Pious Visit to Karbalā”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the journal Studia Islamica (Brill, 2021), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), offers an anthropological analysis of the ziyāra, the pious visit to Shia holy places...