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ArgumentaireCe colloque, organis&#233; par l&#8217;Alma mater de Franz Cumont, l&#8217;Universit&#233; de Gand, est centr&#233; sur la mani&#232;re dont Cumont et ses contemporains ont con&#231;u la relation entre le christianisme ancien et les cultes &#224; myst&#232;res pa&#239;ens. Il s&#8217;agira d&#8217;une &#233;tude large du th&#232;me historiographique, incluant aussi ses pr&#233;d&#233;cesseurs et les recherches r&#233;centes.Franz Cumont &#233;tait un pionnier de l&#8217;&#233;tude scientifique des &#171;&#160;religions orientales&#160;&#187;. Au d&#233;but du XXe si&#232;cle, plusieurs de ses publications (comme Les Myst&#232;res de Mithra, 1900) ont nourri les d&#233;bats sur la d&#233;pendance du christianisme &#224; l&#8217;&#233;gard des cultes pa&#239;ens, en se basant sur de pr&#233;tendues ressemblances entre ces traditions religieuses. Alors que Cumont a toujours exprim&#233; son opinion de mani&#232;re indirecte et ambigu&#235;, d&#8217;autres savants ont &#233;t&#233; plus explicites dans leur d&#233;monstration ou dans leur n&#233;gation de telles influences.En premier lieu, ce Colloque vise &#224; reconstruire, &#224; &#233;valuer et &#224; contextualiser les id&#233;es de Cumont sur ce point de controverse dans l&#8217;histoire des religions du d&#233;but du XXe si&#232;cle, en &#233;tudiant la pens&#233;e de Cumont et de ses contemporains. Nous nous proposons d&#8217;envisager notamment les id&#233;es d&#8217;Alfred Loisy, ami et correspondant fid&#232;le de Cumont, ainsi que d&#8217;autres historiens actifs dans l&#8217;histoire compar&#233;e des religions et appartenant aux r&#233;seaux de Cumont, comme p.ex. le comte Eug&#232;ne Goblet d&#8217;Alviella, Raffaelle Pettazzoni, Nicol&#224; Turchi, Sir James George Frazer, Arthur Darby Nock, Salomon Reinach, Prosper Alfaric, Hermann Usener, Richard Reitzenstein, Carl Clemen&#8230; Un autre objectif est de se pencher sur les contextes scientifiques, sociaux et id&#233;ologiques de ces diff&#233;rents savants afin de d&#233;gager une synth&#232;se nuanc&#233;e des facteurs qui ont d&#233;termin&#233; les positions des uns et des autres dans les d&#233;bats.Conditions de soumissionCet appel &#224; contribution s&#8217;adresse aux sp&#233;cialistes d&#8217;historiographie des religions antiques des XIXe et XXe si&#232;cles. Le Colloque sera l&#8217;occasion de discuter amplement des id&#233;es avanc&#233;es par les diverses traditions historiographiques, m&#233;thodologiquement et g&#233;ographiquement d&#233;termin&#233;es. Ainsi, on tentera de dresser un bilan approfondi d&#8217;une des questions les plus &#233;pineuses de l&#8217;histoire compar&#233;e des religions.Les langues de travail du Colloque seront le fran&#231;ais, l&#8217;anglais et l&#8217;allemand.Les personnes int&#233;ress&#233;es sont invit&#233;es &#224; soumettre une proposition de communication&#160;&#224; l&#8217;attention d&#8217;Annelies Lannoy&#160;: annelies.lannoy@ugent.beau plus tard le 31 mars 2013Les propositions de 300 mots max. seront assorties d&#8217;un bref CV.&#160;La publication des Actes est pr&#233;vue.Le colloque se tiendra &#224; Gand, du 13 au 15 septembre 2013KANTL, Koningstraat 18, 9000 GentDe renseignements additionnels seront disponible en ligne &#224;&#160;&#160;http://www.csct.ugent.be/christianmysteryToutes les propositions seront soumises &#224; un processus rigoureux d&#8217;&#233;valuation men&#233; par le Comit&#233; scientifique.Comit&#233; scientifiqueProf. Danny Praet (UGent)Prof. Corinne Bonnet (Universit&#233; de Toulouse le Mirail)Prof. C.J.T. Talar (University of Saint Thomas, Houston)Prof. Jos Verheyden (KU Leuven)ArgumentThe theme of this international conference, hosted by Franz Cumont&#8217;s alma mater Ghent University, is the way Cumont and his contemporaries conceived the relationship of Early Christianity to the pagan mystery cults. We will also include predecessors and more recent scholarship on this topic. Cumont was a pioneer of the scientific study of the oriental religions. Many of his publications (e.g. The Mysteries of Mithras, 1900) fuelled the early 20th century debates about Christianity&#8217;s dependence on the pagan cults through the similarities they suggested between these religious traditions. Cumont expressed his opinion only indirectly and ambiguously, but other scholars have been more explicit in demonstrating or denying such influences.This conference serves multiple purposes. The first set of aims is to reconstruct, evaluate and contextualize Cumont&#8217;s views on this much debated topic in early 20th century history of religions, through the reconstruction of his ideas, as well as of those of his contemporaries. We are e.g. thinking of Cumont&#8217;s long time friend and correspondent Alfred Loisy, but also of comparative historians of religions, belonging to Cumont&#8217;s network, like Eug&#232;ne Goblet d&#8217;Alviella, Raffaele Pettazzoni, Nicol&#224; Turchi, James George Frazer, Arthur Darby Nock, Salomon Reinach, Prosper Alfaric, Hermann Usener, Richard Reitzenstein, Carl Clemen, &#8230; We also want to include and discuss the different scientific, social, religious and ideological backgrounds of these scholars, so as to create a nuanced synthesis of the factors which could have influenced the different positions in this discussion.Submission guidelinesThis conference aims at uniting specialists of historiography of religion, whose contributions will together cover various methodological and geographical traditions, so as to come to a broad overview of this issue within the early 20th century history of science.The languages of the conference will be English, French, and German.Scholars interested in submitting a proposal for a lecture should do soby March 31st 2013 at the latest.Proposals of no more than 300 words should be submitted by sending an e-mail to Annelies Lannoy, at the following address: annelies.lannoy@ugent.be.All proposals should be accompanied by a short CV.Publication of Acts is intended.More information will be available on the conference website:&#160;&#160;http://www.csct.ugent.be/christianmysteryThe Conference will be held in Ghent, September 13-15, 2013.KANTL, Koningstraat 18, 9000 Gent&#160;Scientific committeeProf. Danny Praet (UGent)Prof. Corinne Bonnet (Universit&#233; de Toulouse le Mirail)Prof. C.J.T. Talar (University of Saint Thomas, Houston)Prof. Jos Verheyden (KU Leuven)