Religious heritage at the heart of the rural world 

Pilgrim

By: Geneviève Delrue

2 min

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World Religions - Sunday September 20, 2020 - 11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

On the occasion of European Heritage Days

and the 30th anniversary of the Grand Prix Pèlerin du Patrimoine, the Christian weekly takes stock of the rescue operations carried out thanks to this award.

It also intends to promote this heritage represented by small country churches, visible landmarks in a rural world which is losing its shops and services.

Religious heritage is also a way for young people to learn history and to discover crafts.  

Catherine Lalanne

, editor-in-chief of Le Pèlerin and in charge of the Grand Prix Pèlerin du Patrimoine.

Sophie Laurant

, major reporter at Le Pèlerin and president of the Association of Heritage Journalists (AJP). 

The religious heritage is also the pilgrimage routes, both tangible and intangible heritage: 

, collaborator of the Pilgrim and author of the 

Laughter and God

Laughter at God, laughter with God, laughter without God, this is the long and complex history of laughter and the sacred that

traces 

 in his book “ 

” (Bayard).

This last work deepens this subject which he has widely explored and deals with the question of laughter in a Western society which has evacuated God: a laugh which according to him has become empty and sad, a laughter threatened with God disappearing.

On the occasion of the trial of the alleged accomplices of the January 2015 attacks, the comedian 

 back on his capsule "Does Allah have humor?"

from the series "A muslim who wants you well".

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