10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAICITY»
Discover the use of
laicity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
laicity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The French Republic: History, Values, Debates
14 LAICITY Jean Baubérot Translated by Arthur Goldhammer The (French)
Republic is secular (laïque), and (French) “laicity” is republican.* In France, this
might seem to be an obvious fact needing no lengthy commentary. For instance ...
Edward Berenson, Vincent Duclert, Christophe Prochasson, 2011
Still, a conflict between laicity understood as religious liberty and laicity
understood as republican self-definition was always possible on the grounds of
the 1905 law. After all, its passing was enough of an affront for the Vatican to
break ...
3
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe
French context, we can see that an agreement is coming” and that French Islam
is “plural, i.e. composed of a plurality of trends, and that the interpretation of laicity
by the Muslims is manifold” (p. 12). These questions are investigated in the first ...
Jørgen Schøler Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, 2009
4
Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France: ...
Since then, political parties have viewed the issue of laicity and Catholic
education in France as one best left alone. Laicity was set to become a
consensual symbolic decor for republican ceremony. If laicity has continued to
represent a live ...
5
Encyclopedia of Global Religion
of a public school without religious instruction, or the laicity of the state, meaning
the creation of legislation and public policies based on secular arguments, not on
religious bases. In sum, it can be said that the term laicization is mainly used in ...
Mark Juergensmeyer, Wade Clark Roof, 2011
6
Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction
Refah also claimed that the speeches of Erbakan and others—allegedly running
against the laicity principle—not only enjoyed a principled parliamentary
immunity, but also had to be understood in context and not as purposeful
statements of ...
The veil debate: when the religious other and the gendered other are one Irene
Becci Over the last ten to fifteen years, the Muslim headscarf has been at the
centre of a passionate debate about gender equality, laicity and cultural rights in
...
8
John Paul II and the Legacy of Dignitatis Humanae
See also ibid., 231: "Does a 'saine laicity' oppose itself to the State confessing the
truth of a given religion? We do not think so. Even more: the contrary will appear
evident to anyone who knows clearly religious truth and has seen in it the ...
9
Religious Freedom and the Position of Islam in Western ...
affiliation to a certain religious community, including head-scarves by Muslim
pupils, could be compatible with the principle of laicity, taking into account the
principles of the Constitution and the laws of the Republic, as well as the rules ...
W. A. R. Shadid, P. Sj. van Koningsveld, 1995
10
The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in ...
The idea of laicity, what Buisson called la foi laïqne, had many sources, but
liberal Protestants played a disproportionately large part in its codification and
dissemination. What I will suggest here in fact is that laicity — a blend of
rationalism, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAICITY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
laicity is used in the context of the following news items.
The Turkish elections: the struggle within
It was caught between conflicting demands – order versus change, innovation versus stability, religious orthodoxy versus laicity, national unity ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
Enlightened Christian Foreign Policy – An Essay By Deputy State …
The book, which tells of the rapid spread of Islam and its perching on political power in a country so proud of the traditions of laicity and the ... «Hungary Today, Apr 15»
We cannot suppress religious identity
However, insistence on secularity or laicity as a hallmark of Canadian identity is simplistic, bordering on denial. Religion cannot and should not ... «Hamilton Spectator, Mar 15»
“Freedom of religion is being 'redefined' as a very narrow right”
The French evangelicals had already published a book on Laicity ('La Laicité Française: entre l'idée, l'histoire et le droit positif', BLF) in 2013, ... «Evangelical Focus, Mar 15»
France's Muslim Problem — and Europe's
France, alone among European nations, prides itself on laicity — secularism. That's one of the reasons the French thought they could absorb ... «PJ Media, Feb 15»
France on Fire
He then insisted that France was not at war with a religion and must stand firm on its principles of toleration and laicity—that is, the separation of ... «The New York Review of Books, Feb 15»
Two Views on Speech
In the French case, it is not, however, so much the specific experience of the laicity as that of the Shoah. Hate speech directed against Jews ... «The New Yorker, Jan 15»
What is going wrong in France's prisons?
It is illegal under France's strict laicity laws to count the number of Muslim prisoners, but experts agree that the figure is an accurate average ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
Charlie Hebdo 'All is Forgiven' edition reviewed: 'typically cheeky …
All the millions of people who have said “I am Charlie” since last Wednesday must know that the expression also stands for “I am laicity,” he ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
French Ambassador 'Touched, But Not Surprised' By Russians …
... to its model of the co-existence of cultures, republican integration and positive laicity as the acceptance of all forms of religious expression. «The Moscow Times, Jan 15»
