Danièle Hervieu-Léger (born 3 February 1947) is a French sociologist specialized in the sociology of religion.
Biography
A graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris with a doctorate in sociology, she is also editor of the journal Archives des sciences sociales de la religion.
As president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) from March 2004 to March 2009, she undertook significant changes in the institution, particularly lowering the level of students before admission to the Master to abandon school diploma for the benefit of aligning the university system of LMD. She has also initiated a relocation of the school outside Paris, in Seine-Saint-Denis, to integrate it into a new academic center for education, now called "Campus Condorcet", whose composition is constantly changing.
In late 2008, Hervieu-Léger was appointed by the Minister of Research, Valérie Pécresse, Chair of the Steering Committee for developing the national strategy of research and innovation,[2] and resigned in 2009.[3]
with Bertrand Hervieu, Des communautés pour les temps difficiles. Néo-ruraux ou nouveaux moines, préface de Jean Séguy, Paris, Éditions du Centurion, 1983.
with Françoise Champion, Vers un nouveau christianisme. Introduction à la sociologie du christianisme occidental, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1986.
(dir.) with Roland Ducret and Paul Ladrière, Christianisme et modernité, actes du colloque de L'Arbresle, September 1987, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1990.
(dir.) with Françoise Champion, De l'émotion en religion. Renouveaux et traditions, Paris, Le Centurion, 1990.
(dir.), La religion au lycée. Conférences au lycée Buffon, 1989–1990, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1990.
(dir.), Religion et écologie, 27 and 28 November 1991, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1993.
La religion pour mémoire, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1993.
(dir.) with Grace Davie, Identités religieuses en Europe, Paris, La Découverte, 1996.
La religion en mouvement : le pèlerin et le converti, Paris, Flammarion, 1999.
La religion en miettes ou La question des sectes, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 2001.
Catholicisme, la fin d'un monde, Paris, Bayard, 2003.
(dir.) with Erwan Dianteill and Isabelle Saint-Martin, La modernité rituelle. Rites politiques et religieux des sociétés modernes, Paris - Budapest - Torino, l'Harmattan, 2004.