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

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

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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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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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

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