Durante as décadas de 1890 e 1910, a sociologia adquiriu direito de cidadania na universidade francesa, passando a compor, em uma posição institucionalmente frágil e marginal, o leque das disciplinas ofertadas nas Faculdades de Letras. A presente tese se propõe a investigar os diálogos que os portadores desse saber novo travaram então com helenistas e latinistas, os quais representavam, por seu turno, disciplinas tradicionais e ainda hegemônicas no sistema de ensino daquele país. Para tanto, são aqui privilegiados os circuitos de ideias e de pessoas entre cinco revistas especializadas de perfil universitário: o Année Sociologique, o Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, os Mélanges dArchéologie et dHistoire, a Revue des Études Grecques e a Revue des Études Anciennes. A partir do exame dos sentidos de tal fluxo, procurase esclarecer quais condições epistemológicas e sociais tornaram possível uma interdisciplinaridade historicamente dada, problematizando tanto seus limites práticos quanto seu peso na definição de cada um dos saberes nela implicados. / During the 1890s and 1910s, sociology acquired citizenship rights within the French University system, and became part of the spectrum of disciplines offered at the various faculties of Letters all over the country, even though it kept holding an institutionally weak position. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the dialogues during this early period between the holders of this new knowledge and Hellenistic and Latin scholars, who, in turn, represented traditional disciplines which still dominated the French educational system. To that end, we focus upon the circuits of ideas and people represented in five specialized academic journals, i.e: Année Sociologique, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, Mélanges d\'Archéologie et d\'Histoire, Revue des Etudes Grecques, and Revue des Etudes Anciennes. By analyzing the meanings of such a flow, we attempt to elucidate the epistemological and social conditions that allowed a historically given interdisciplinarity, questioning both its practical limits and its influence on the definition of each knowledge area.

Durante as décadas de 1890 e 1910, a sociologia adquiriu direito de cidadania na universidade francesa, passando a compor, em uma posição institucionalmente frágil e marginal, o leque das disciplinas ofertadas nas Faculdades de Letras. A presente tese se propõe a investigar os diálogos que os portadores desse saber novo travaram então com helenistas e latinistas, os quais representavam, por seu turno, disciplinas tradicionais e ainda hegemônicas no sistema de ensino daquele país. Para tanto, são aqui privilegiados os circuitos de ideias e de pessoas entre cinco revistas especializadas de perfil universitário: o Année Sociologique, o Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, os Mélanges dArchéologie et dHistoire, a Revue des Études Grecques e a Revue des Études Anciennes. A partir do exame dos sentidos de tal fluxo, procurase esclarecer quais condições epistemológicas e sociais tornaram possível uma interdisciplinaridade historicamente dada, problematizando tanto seus limites práticos quanto seu peso na definição de cada um dos saberes nela implicados. / During the 1890s and 1910s, sociology acquired citizenship rights within the French University system, and became part of the spectrum of disciplines offered at the various faculties of Letters all over the country, even though it kept holding an institutionally weak position. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the dialogues during this early period between the holders of this new knowledge and Hellenistic and Latin scholars, who, in turn, represented traditional disciplines which still dominated the French educational system. To that end, we focus upon the circuits of ideas and people represented in five specialized academic journals, i.e: Année Sociologique, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, Mélanges d\'Archéologie et d\'Histoire, Revue des Etudes Grecques, and Revue des Etudes Anciennes. By analyzing the meanings of such a flow, we attempt to elucidate the epistemological and social conditions that allowed a historically given interdisciplinarity, questioning both its practical limits and its influence on the definition of each knowledge area.

The purpose of this study is to pose possibilities in addressing the problem of ethnical discrimination, its development into supersessionism and the perpetual discriminatory practices in the contemporary church by engaging Acts 6:1-7 from a rhetorical and deconstructive perspective. The episode in Acts 6:1-7, where the seven men have been selected to deal with the issue of the “daily distribution of food” presents a problem with regard to its interpretation. The problem resides in the fact that the text itself contains a certain number of inconsistencies. The most obvious is the contradiction between the task assigned to the seven and their actual function in the subsequent narrative. The account of the selection of the seven has attracted the attention of many scholars. However, although they have identified the contradictions and incoherencies, the methodologies applied by these scholars to uncover the original meaning, did not enable them to dismantle the hierarchical dichotomies underlying the text, and to question how ethnical discrimination can be prevented as well as how the leadership is differently constructed. The objective of this study is to expose these contradictions and to ask how we can deal with this exposure, and how we can think with a text such as Acts 6:1-7 in addressing the problem of ethnical discrimination, supersessionism and leadership, not only in the church but also in its wider political manifestations. The research methodology used in this study derives from deconstruction and rhetoric within the wider ambit of critical theory. Acts 6:1-7, when read from a conjunction of rhetorical and deconstruction perspectives, demonstrates that there is indeed a problem of ethnicity in Acts 6, reveals how the author of Acts privileges an engendered masculinity ethos, exposes the absence of taking the plight of widows into full consideration, shows that the roots of supersessionism can be found in Acts 6: 1-7, and also infuses the notion of leadership with an ethical overturning that requires rethinking the implications for leadership. The significance of the study lies in considering how a continuation of ethnical discrimination in contemporary denominational context can be resisted via my thinking with Acts 6:1-7. / New Testament / D. Th. (New Testament)