L’Afrique et l’Europe entre fractures et résiliences communautaires

AUTEUR : ANNE BEATRICE FAYE

ABSTRACT

The current article presents with an contextual awareness african attempts to solve community fractures caused by religious fundamentalism. It highlights experiences made in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Morocco, showing them as models for Europe in its difficult fight for an adequate approach of religious fundamentalism. Emphasising emphasizing prevention, the article opens up approaches which further community-based resiliences to religious fundamentalism, namely the fight against population impoverishment seen as creating a favourable environment for religious fundamentalism, the ideological and not contextualised use of key religious concepts as a source of religious manipulation, the importance of a positif religious and political leadership as well as more in depth reflections on the relationships between « the closed and the opened », the profane and the religious.