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Ipar Euskal herriko herri-erlijioaren eta identitate etnikoaren eraikuntza sozialaren arteko erlazioak aztertzea da artikulu honen xedea. Erakutsi nahi da erlijio-/gizarte-ohitura bat, hots Besta-Berri, erraz bihur daitekeela politikoa ideologi-polarizazioa nagusi den testuinguru batean, hain zuzen Frantziako hirugarren errepublikan, Eliza eta Estatuaren arteko gatazka bizia zegoenean. Ospakizun honen bilakaerari buruzko egungo eztabaidak ere Eliza katolikoaren eta lekuko identitateen arteko erlazioan arazo anitz azaleratzen duela erakusten da orobat. Mendebaldeko herrialdeetan sekulartze-/laikotze-prozesuek identitate etnikoaren bilakabidean duten eragina aztertu nahi duen hausnarketa zabalago batean kokatu behar da lan txiki hau.

 

This paper aims to analyse links existing between “popular religion” and social construction of ethnic identity in the French Basque case. It tries to show how a religious/civil custom, the Corpus celebration, can easily become a political issue in a context of ideological polarization, as was the conflict between Church and State in the third French republic. It also shows that actual debates over the becoming of this celebration still ask the problematic of relations between the catholic church and local identities, as multiples as they are. This short work has to be replaced in a more general context of a reflexion about the incidence of secularization/laïcisation processes on development of ethnic identity in several western countries.