Background
André J. Bélanger was born on June 17, 1935, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Jacques and Jeanne (Fauteux) Bélanger.
André Bélanger
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
André Bélanger studied at McGill University and became a Bachelor in Communications in 1959. He continued education at McGill University and received a master's degree in 1961.
2325 Rue de l'Université, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Bélanger became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 at Laval University.
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
André Bélanger studied at McGill University and became a Bachelor in Communications in 1959. He continued education at McGill University and received a master's degree in 1961.
2325 Rue de l'Université, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Bélanger became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 at Laval University.
https://www.amazon.com/Framework-Political-Sociology-Andre-Belanger/dp/0802065716
1985
(Using France as the most representative case of a Catholi...)
Using France as the most representative case of a Catholic context, Bélanger argues that as French society became more secularized intellectuals replaced the clergy as arbitrators of justice and enlightenment. Catholic morality was consolidated by the scholastic tradition and confirmed by the Counter-Reformation, providing the foundation that allowed the establishment of a lay elite.
https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Catholicism-Consecration-Intellectual/dp/0773515178
André J. Bélanger was born on June 17, 1935, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Jacques and Jeanne (Fauteux) Bélanger.
André Bélanger studied at McGill University and became a Bachelor in Communications in 1959. He continued education at McGill University and received a master's degree in 1961. Bélanger became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 at Laval University.
André J. Bélanger was a professor at Laval University from 1965 to 1973. Since 1973 he is a professor of political theory and political sociology at the University of Montréal.
Political scientist André J. Bélanger’s 1997 work The Ethics of Catholicism and the Consecration of the Intellectual attempts to show “that Catholic countries, mainly France, have developed a highly influential circle of intellectuals by secularizing the Catholic medieval tradition of Thomas Aquinas and other church fathers, while Protestant countries, mainly Great Britain, lacking a comparable tradition, could never develop” a similar intellectual group, according to Lewis A. Coser in the American Journal of Sociology. Bélanger covers “intellectuals” from the Middle Ages to the 1990s.
Critics offered mixed assessments of the work. Coser took issue with Bélanger’s definition of an intellectual as someone who transcends his/her own area of expertise and becomes active in politics. He faulted the work on other grounds, concluding that Bélanger’s thesis that “intellectuals in the Catholic world have an advantage over their Protestant colleagues... fails any empirical proof.” On the other hand, Dominique Marshall in Canadian Book Review Annual claimed that Bélanger identifies a “remarkably constant set of beliefs” in his “elite of lay guides” and found his conclusions “most compelling.”
Bélanger’s other works include L'apolitisme des idéologies québécoises: Le grand tournant de 1934-1936, published in 1974, and Framework for a Political Sociology, published in 1985.
(Using France as the most representative case of a Catholi...)
André J. Bélanger married Ghyslaine Guertin on August 12, 1967. They had two children: Mathieu and Guillaume.
