| abstract | - Dominique Avon is a French historian of religion and professor at the University of Maine, France. He studies the interactions between monotheistic religions in the Mediterranean Basin, and has written several books on Catholic religious orders such as the Society of Jesus and the Order of Preachers and on Muslim groups such as the Hezbollah (Hezbollah: A History of the "Party of God", written with Anas-Trissa Khatchadourian). He is also the author of La Fragilité des clercs („The Frailty of the Intellectuals”, untranslated), an essay in which he analyses the thought of Samuel Huntington, Tariq Ramadan, Georges Corm, Alain Besançon and Alain Finkielkraut. He advocates that religions should not be used as a mean for identitary violence, and that religious views should be discussed instead in the public sphere of reason. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
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