Henri Desroche

Henri Desroche was born 12 April 1914 in Roanne, France. He attended the Collège Saint-Pierre of Villemontais before entering the seminary in the diocese of Lyon. He joined the Dominicans in Angers in October 1934. There he took the name of Henri-Charles and added the "s" to his name, becoming Henri-Charles Desroches. He completed his theological studies in Chambéry and was ordained a priest in Annecy in July 1936. On September 30, 1977, Desroche received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden. ==Works by Desroche==

• The American Shakers: From Neo-Christianity to Presocialism (1971) • Jacob and the Angel: An Essay in Sociologies of Religion (1973) (Trans. of Sociologies religieuses [1968]) • The Sociology of Hope (1979) ==Notes==