La quête du sacré dans les romans de Chantal Deltenre
In search of the sacrum in the novels of the Belgian writer Chantal Deltenre

Summary/Abstract: La plus que mère, La cérémonie des poupées and La maison de l’âme, the trilogy of the Belgian writer and ethnologist Chantal Deltenre – published in the first decade of the 21st century, illustrates post-modern religiosity, the main characteristics of which are diversity, syncretism and relativism. The search for the sacrum is supposed to be a type of initiation journey undertaken mostly by lost and uprooted individuals. It is a search for a safe and meaningful space (place) which is not just the opposite of the shapeless and meaningless world of the profanum, but also allows one to build one’s own identity.

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