French Secularism in Debate
Old Wine in New Bottles

Author: Dimier, Véronique

Source: French Politics, Culture & Society, Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2008 , pp. 92-110(19)

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Abstract:

This article deals with two debates at two different moments in history: the recent 2004 debate on a law proposed by the Chirac government that aimed at forbidding any religious signs (including the Islamic headscarf) worn in an ostensible way at school; and the 1892 debate on native education in Algeria and the opportunity to have a Koran teacher at school. At stake in both debates were two conceptions of Republican laïcité (secularism), one assimilationist, the other more pragmatic.

Keywords: FRANCE; LAÏCITÉ; COLONIAL POLICY; ALGÉRIE

DOI: 10.3167/fpcs.2008.260109

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French Secularism in Debate Old Wine in New Bottles

French Secularism in Debate
Old Wine in New Bottles