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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Jansen, Yolande,
• MitwirkendeR: IMISCOE AUP Royaltyfonds,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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 depicts the paradoxes of assimilation as experienced by French Jews in the late nineteenth century. Paying particular attention to Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, she ultimately argues for dynamic, critical multiculturalism as an alternative to secularism, assimilation, and integration.

Table of Contents

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