Le chanoine Philémon Colinet (1853-1917) et la première Semaine d’ethnologie re-ligieuse de Louvain (1911-1912) : première approche d’une réaction antimoderniste, dans Science, Religion and Politics during the Modernist crisis. Science, Religion et Politique à l’époque de la crise moderniste (Insti

Courtois, Luc
(2017) Science, religion et politique à l’Époque de la « crise moderniste/, Rome, 3-5 juin 2010, Institut Historique Belge de Rome / — Location: Rome (3.June.2010)

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(en) Contemporary in Louvain by the reformer Jean-Baptiste Carnoy, Charles de Harlez (1832-1899) played an important role, although more discreet, in the scientific renewal of the University of Louvain. Having had to temporarily give up his activities because of health problems, this lawyer by training who had started his career in secondary education had taken advantage of his forced retirement to study in self-taught oriental languages ​​Indo-Iranian, which allowed him to be appointed professor at Louvain for these subjects from 1871. At a time when the rationalist critic drew argument of the similarities observed between Christianity and the other religions to contest the value of the catholic dogma, he was, like Mercier in philosophy, the promoter in his field of apologetics based on a positive approach. It was in this context of oriental studies considered for themselves that he created in 1882 Le Muséon, the first scientific journal set up at the University and whose success would ensure the international reputation of the Louvain School. His disciple, Canon Philemon Colinet (1853-1917), was less enlightened. Doctor in oriental languages ​​of the University of Leuven (1884), student of Johannes Schmidt in Berlin (1884) and Michel Bréal in Paris (1885), Colinet began his career as assistant to Charles de Harlez in 1885, to be then integrated in the louvanist faculty the following year. A distinguished Orientalist and pioneer of Flemish philology, he could have, beside very broad and independent views on certain points, very fixed or simplistic ideas about others, and he defended the ones like the others with so much ardor and stubbornness. This attitude is perfectly illustrated by the irreducible opposition he will manifest to the project of creation of the "Weeks of Ethnological Religion" (from April 1911), succeeding in rallying to his point of view the highest Roman authorities.
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Courtois, L. (2017). Le chanoine Philémon Colinet (1853-1917) et la première Semaine d’ethnologie re-ligieuse de Louvain (1911-1912) : première approche d’une réaction antimoderniste, dans Science, Religion and Politics during the Modernist crisis. Science, Religion et Politique à l’époque de la crise moderniste (Insti. In D. PRAET et C. BONNET (dir.) (ed.), Science, Religion and Politics during the Modernist crisis. Science, Religion et Po-litique à l’époque de la crise moderniste (Institut Historique Belge de Rome, p. p. 221-249). Institut Historique Belge de Rome. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/221298