Unveiling the nation : the politics of secularism in France and Quebec /

"Over the last few decades, politicians in Europe and North America have fiercely debated the effects of a growing Muslim minority on their respective national identities. In some countries, these debates have produced laws that prohibit certain Islamic religious coverings in public spaces and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Laxer, Emily, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Secularism > Political aspects > France.
Secularism > Political aspects > Québec (Province)
Religion and state > France.
Religion and state > Québec (Province)
Laïcité > France.
Laïcité > Québec (Province)
Religion et État > France.
Religion et État > Québec (Province)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Religion and state.
Secularism > Political aspects.
France.
Québec.
France
Political aspects
Québec (Province)
Religion and state
Secularism
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Toward a politics-centred approach to the production of nationhood
  • "Neither right nor left : French!" : meeting the ultra-right challenge in French politics
  • Which "option for Québec?" Navigating Quebec's nation-centred politics
  • "We are all Republicans" : sharing "ownership" of the nation in France's face veil debate
  • "They are genetically incapable" of defending Québécois values : unresolved struggles to "own" the nation in Quebec's charter of values debate.

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