Fabien Duffit-Dalloz

Religious practice in private law companies Fabien Duffit-Dalloz

"God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it." In the first book of the Bible, work is originally detached from any idea of ??constraint: man works to form his wisdom. This excerpt illustrates that religion and work have always had very close links. Patrick BANON, specialist in religious sciences, affirms that work is a biblical notion. Biblical thought has indeed largely insisted on the spiritual aspect of work: "The Lord has blessed you in all the work of your hands". We then seek the hope of redemption through work. In the spirit of the founding texts, work was a source of purification from original sin. Things have changed a lot since then. Today, the world of work is like modern French society: more and more secularized. The French believe less and less and, as a result, have had a very reduced religious practice for several decades. As Patrice ADAM, member of the Institut Régional du Travail in Nancy, emphasizes, "drunk on science, technology, reason, our societies did not have God for their horizon" ...