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Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism : French Modernist Legacies /

In this timely study, Yolande Jansen critiques efforts to assimilate religious minorities into a secular and supposedly neutral public sphere. Such efforts, she ably demonstrates, can create and perpetuate the very distinctions they aim to overcome. Her sophisticated analyses draw on literature that...

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Autor principal: Jansen, Yolande (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
Colección:IMISCOE Research
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  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Assimilation in the French sociology of incorporation from a multicultural perspective
  • Chapter 3. The liberal sociology of assimilation and citizenship and its transnationalist alternatives
  • Transit I Proust as a witness of assimilation in 19th-century France
  • Chapter 4. Alfred Bloch's personal integration test at the threshold of his friend's home
  • Chapter 5. Stuck in a revolving door
  • Transit II Laïcité and assimilation in the Third Republic and today
  • Chapter 6. Elements of a critique of the laïcité-religion framework
  • Chapter 7. Secularism, sociology and security
  • Chapter 8. The highly precarious structure of assimilation
  • Chapter 9. Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index
  • Other IMISCOE Research titles