Michel Meslin (29 September 1926 in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

– 12 April 2010 in Paris) was a professor at and president of the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).''Rencontres de religions'' Proinsias Mac Cana, Michel Meslin, Georges Dumézil - 1986 "Michel MESLIN est né en 1926 à Paris. Agrégé de l'Université,

Docteur ès Lettres Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: ' or '), also termed Doctor of Literature in some countries, is a terminal degree in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In the United States, at universities such as Drew University, the degree ...

, Professeur d'Histoire comparée des Religions à l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne où il dirige le Département de Sciences des Religions." He established the Institut de Recherche pour l'Etude des Religions (IRER). A specialist in

late antiquity Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodiza ...

, the history of

Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, which states that Jesus in Christianity, Jesus is the Son of God (Christianity), Son of God and Resurrection of Jesus, rose from the dead after his Crucifixion of Jesus, crucifixion, whose ...

and

anthropology of religion Anthropology of religion is the study of religion in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures. The anthropology of religion, as a field, overlaps with but is distinct from the f ...

, he published several works on these and other subjects.

Published works

* Les Ariens d'Occident (1967) * Le Christianisme dans l'empire romain (1970) * Pour une science des Religions, Le Seuil, (1973) * L'Homme Romain (1978) * Histoire de l'Eglise par elle-même Fayard, 1978, avec Jacques Loew. * L'Expérience humaine du divin Paris, Le Cerf, 1988. * Les Religions, la médecine, et l'origine de la vie Odile Jacob, 2001, avec Ysé Tardan-Masquelier et Alain Proust. * Quand les Hommes parlent aux dieux, histoire de la prière dans les civilisations Bayard, 2003 * La Quête de guérison, Médecine et religions face à la souffrance Bayard, 2006 avec Ysé Tardan-Masquelier. * Des mythes fondateurs pour notre humanité Complexe, 2007 * L'Homme et le religieux Honoré Champion, 2010

References

1926 births 2010 deaths Academic staff of the University of Paris French male writers {{christianity-historian-stub