TY  - BOOK
TI  - Religion and Secularism in France Today
SN  - 9781003178675
PY  - 2022///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Civil rights & citizenship
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Political science & theory
KW  - Religious groups: social & cultural aspects
KW  - Social & political philosophy
KW  - Society & culture: general
KW  - 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
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - 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
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81328
ER  -