Henri Desroche (; 12 April 19141 June 1994) was a French sociologist. His writings center on the sociology of religion and cooperative systems and movements. He was a priest in the Dominican Order.

Life

Henri Desroche was born 12 April 1914 in Roanne, France. He attended the Collège Saint-Pierre of Villemontais before entering the seminary in the diocese of Lyon. He joined the Dominicans in Angers in October 1934. There he took the name of Henri-Charles and added the "s" to his name, becoming Henri-Charles Desroches. He completed his theological studies in Chambery and was ordained a priest in Annecy in July 1936. On September 30, 1977 Desroche received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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Works by Desroche

The American Shakers: From Neo-Christianity to Presocialism (1971) Jacob and the Angel: An Essay in Sociologies of Religion (1973) (Trans. of Sociologies religieuses [1968]) The Sociology of Hope (1979)

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References

External links

"Desroche, Henri" at Hartford Institute for Religion Research, (Hartford Seminary). "Henri Desroche (1914-1994)" at Cahiers d'Études Bastidiennes. by Cercle Condorcet de Roanne.

Henri Desroche

1914 births

1994 deaths

French sociologists

People from Roanne

French Dominicans

20th-century French Roman Catholic priests

French male writers

20th-century French male writers