Reforming Laïcité or Reforming Islam?: Secularism, Islam, and the Regulation of Religion in France

Abstract This paper focuses on management of Islam by the French State since the state of emergency declared in 2015. We analyze the legal actions of the State using a law-in-context approach and theorize secularism as the State’s management of religion. We focus on the Senate Report (2016) concerni...

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Auteurs: Arslan, Berna Zengin (Auteur) ; Açimuz, Bige (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2021
Dans: Journal of law, religion and state
Année: 2021, Volume: 9, Numéro: 2/3, Pages: 147-177
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Frankreich / Laïcité / Islam / Droit d'exception / Politique religieuse / Histoire 2015-2021
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophie de la religion
AD Sociologie des religions
BJ Islam
KBG France
ZC Politique en général
Sujets non-standardisés:B Fondation de l’Islam de France
B Laïcité
B Islam
B French Islam
B management of religion
B Observatoire de la laïcité
B France
B Secularism
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Résumé:Abstract This paper focuses on management of Islam by the French State since the state of emergency declared in 2015. We analyze the legal actions of the State using a law-in-context approach and theorize secularism as the State’s management of religion. We focus on the Senate Report (2016) concerning Muslim worship, the legal changes wrought by the state of emergency, and the institutions formed to govern Islam and secularism. We examine whether there has been a change in the French State’s approach to Muslim worship. Rather than remaining neutral, the French State has become even more actively involved in the field of religion by adopting a reformist attitude intended to transform not the principles of laïcité but the Muslims in France. In this period, the State has taken concrete steps and built institutions both to support the formation of a secularized French Islam and to govern the boundaries of laïcité.
ISSN:2212-4810
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of law, religion and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22124810-2021J001