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Religion and Secularism in France Today

Edited By Philippe Portier, Jean-Paul Willaime Copyright 2022

136 Pages

by Routledge India

136 Pages

by Routledge India

136 Pages

by Routledge India

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This volume explores the dynamic life of religion and politics in France. The separation of church and state and the autonomy of school education from religion are the two fundamental pillars of France as a secular republic. The historical construction of French secularism (laïcité) was particularly marked by the strong opposition between the state and the Catholic church. However, the... Read more

Table of Contents

Foreword by Rajeev Bhargava

Preface: Secularism in France today by Violette Graff

Acknowledgments

Introduction: the complexity of the French principle of Laïcité

Philippe Portier and Jean-Paul Willaime

1. A brief history of French laïcité

Jean Baubérot

2. The three stages of French secularism

Philippe Portier

3. How did Catholicism shape and challenge French laïcism

Denis Pelletier

4. Minority Religions, Protestantism, and the laws on religion in France

Jean-Paul Willaime

5. From acceptance of diversity to debating multiculturalism: France facing affirmations of identity in the late-twentieth century

Martine Cohen

6. The role of French secularism in the making of the Islamic collective identity

Claire de Galembert

7. Secularity, religion, and the construction of Europe

Jean-Paul Willaime

Appendix: Chronology of Political French History

Editor(s)

Biography

Philippe Portier is Professor of History and Sociology of Secularism at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL, France.

Jean-Paul Willaime is Emerite Professor of History and Sociology of Protestantism at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL, France.

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