02581namaa2200529uu 4500 doab81328 oapen 20260305123945.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 220512s2022 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9781003178675 9781032003436 9781032014586 oapen oapen eng dc HPS bicssc JF bicssc JFSR bicssc JPA bicssc JPVH bicssc JPVH1 bicssc Portier, Philippe edt Religion and Secularism in France Today Taylor & Francis 2022 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star This volume examines the perception of the French principle of laïcité or secularism and attempts to demonstrate to English-speaking readers that the configurations of the French model of laïcité are both more flexible and complex than they appear to be. Due to the diversification of France's religious landscape (notably with a Muslim minority estimated at 7% of the population) and some of the effects of Europeanisation, French secularism is being urged to shed its anti-religious tendencies and abandon a version of secularism conceived as an alternative to religion. The French Republic is not a secularist state but a secular state where secularism is conceived as a founding principle of pluralistic democracies. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Civil rights & citizenship bicssc Human rights bicssc Political science & theory bicssc Religious groups: social & cultural aspects bicssc Social & political philosophy bicssc Society & culture: general bicssc Laicity; laïcité; Fench Republic; secularism; Fremch Secularism; Religion in France; political secularism; Catholicism; Islam; French Catholicism; secularism; separation of Church and State; religion and politics Portier, Philippe oth Willaime, Jean-Paul edt Willaime, Jean-Paul oth DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81328 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 92642 92642