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The article examines the overlapping histories of the French Catholic Church and the public sphere in the 17th century. The article focuses on how religious debates in 17th century France were conducted though the publication of letters. The author examines how this practice was designed to avoid making the church into a public forum. The relationship between the world of letters and publishing and the ecclesiastic and church-centered realm is examined. Topics discussed in the letters include predestination, Jansenism, and morality.

The article compares and contrasts the two editions of the Protestant Reformation document "Consensus Tigurinus" by reformers Heinrich Bullinger and Jean Calvin. The article describes the conciliar agreement between the churches of Bullinger and Calvin, the compromise in sacramental theology described in the text, and the reproduction of the text by bibliographic librarian Philipp Wälchi. Other subjects under discussion include the Reformed church in Geneva, Switzerland, the Zentralbibliothek in Geneva, and the republication of the later edition of the text.

Cameroon, with its german-anglo-french colonial past, is divided by 24 major languages and hosts over 130 ethnic groups. They include the "Kirdi" (meaning "pagan"), a people residing in the North of the country since 200 years when fleeing the domination by the muslim-orientated Fulani/Fulbe to the hills and isolated villages of the Mandara Mountains, where they are still living. The article deals with some questions resulting from ethnic and religious tensions in the country between the muslim majority and the non-muslim minorities, focussing possibilities of how to strengthen political representation and economic influences of those minorities meliorating their position on the country's political chessboard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The public-private distinction forces us to confront the difficulty of analysing representations. These vary with the circumstances and the actors involved. The three articles discussed in this report clearly show the fragility of a dichotomy which belongs to political or philosophical debates. But these articles also allow us to think about new ways of considering the approach to religion in late modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]