Muslim French and the contradictions of secularism /
Mayanthi L. Fernando.
Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
1 online resource (xi, 313 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field notes I: "Vive la République plurielle? -- "The republic is mine" -- Indifference, or the right to citizenship -- Field notes II: Friday prayers -- A memorial to the future -- Reconfiguring freedom -- Field notes III: a tale of two manifestos -- Of mimicry and woman -- Asymmetries of tolerance.
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In 1989, three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in class. The headscarf crisis signaled an Islamic revival among the children of North African immigrants; it also ignited an ongoing debate about the place of Muslims within the secular nation-state. Based on ten years of ethnographic research, The Republic Unsettled alternates between an analysis of Muslim French religiosity and the contradictions of French secularism brought to light by this Muslim identity.
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