La recherche en monde pilarisé

socio-histoire de la sexualité dans des institutions catholiques belges

Abstract

Focused on both Catholic planned parenthood and institutions for children “in danger”, this article addresses the effects of the study of sexuality management by Catholic institutions. It highlights the institutional assimilation of researchers to a laic position. The particular structure of Belgium, which is based on a divided society that leads to the creation of “pillars”, requires reflection on the way we access our fieldwork since we don’t belong to the same “pillar”. When working on sexuality and religion, one also needs to question the consequences of such a labelling. How can we bypass institutional labelling and what does it reveal on Belgian (de)pillarization? The analysis will be based on interviews that were lead during the first year of our doctoral research.