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France’s biggest Muslim school went from accolades to defunding – showing a key paradox in how the country treats Islam
By Vincent Geisser, Françoise Lorcerie, and Carol Ferrara — January 29, 2024
(The Conversation) — Some of the measures the French government has taken to fight radicalization can do the opposite, three social scientists argue.
French schools’ ban on abayas and headscarves is supposedly about secularism − but it sends a powerful message about who ‘belongs’ in French culture
By Carol Ferrara — September 29, 2023
(The Conversation) — Catholicism, ‘Frenchness’ and secularism are often conflated in French culture, a scholar writes, while non-Christian traditions are viewed with suspicion.
France’s laicité in the name of secularism is really only supremacist legacy of colonialism
By Omar Suleiman — September 6, 2023
(RNS) — What is it that makes a schoolgirl’s choice to wear the abaya a form of religious proselytism?
Religion emerges in secular French politics as presidential campaign heats up
By Tom Heneghan — March 24, 2017
PARIS (RNS) Playing the religion card openly is rare in France, where secularism is normally taken so seriously that politicians rarely if ever mention their faith in public. But this election is not taking place in normal times.
Le Pen slams rival Fillon over use of religion in politics
By RNS staff — January 12, 2017
PARIS (Reuters) In an interview with France 2 Television ahead of the presidential election in April, the National Front leader evoked the French principle of secularism in public life.
Catholic priest’s appointment as university president stuns French
By Tom Heneghan — December 22, 2016
PARIS (RNS) Almost anywhere else in France, a theologian could not have even been hired as a lecturer, much less rise to become a university president.
Anniversary of France’s niqab ban passes almost unnoticed
By Tom Heneghan — October 20, 2015
PARIS (RNS) The gradual transformation of the niqab issue from a national debate to little more than a footnote speaks volumes about French politics.
East-West Travelblog: A wake-up call in Washington
By Kimberly Winston — August 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. (RNS) As a religion reporter, I figure I know what secularism is. But Akram Elias made me see it anew in an almost throw-away line in a presentation he gave on federalism I thought would surely be a snoozefest. Joke's on me!
Could Charlie Hebdo have been prevented if France allowed religious instruction? (COMMENTARY)
By Arthur Keefer — June 2, 2015
(RNS) Religious education can help a society understand the motives of religious members, the wise and foolish methods of communicating with them and the appropriate responses to societal problems.
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