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Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism French Modernist Legacies
By Yolande Jansen
Copyright 2014
340 Pages
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Routledge
This remarkable study develops a theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation, arguing that the perspective of assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular and supposedly neutral public sphere may be self-subverting. To flesh out this insight, Jansen draws on the paradoxes of assimilation as experienced by the French Jews in the... Read more
4 The crisis of multiculturalism, new assimilationism and secularism 2 Assimilation in the French sociology of incorporation from a multicultural perspective 3 The new liberal sociology of assimilation and its transnationalist alternatives 4 Alfred Bloch's personal integration test at the threshold of the protagonist's family's home 5 Stuck in a revolving door. Cultural memory, assimilation and secularization 6 Elements for a critique of the laïcité-religion framework 7 Secularism, sociology, security 8 The highly precarious structure of assimilation: modernist philosophical schemes, memory and the Proustian narrative.
Biography
Yolande Jansen is Socrates professor of humanism in relation to religion and secularity at the VU University Amsterdam and a senior researcher at the Amsterdam Center for Globalisation Studies, University of Amsterdam.
