Republic Unsettled Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism

Name: Republic Unsettled Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism
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ISBN: 9780822357483

ISBN-10: 0822357488

ISBN-13: 9780822357483

Edition: 2014

Authors: Mayanthi L. Fernando

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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 precipitated by this Muslim identity. Mayanthi L. Fernando explores how Muslim French draw on both Islamic and secular-republican traditions to create novel modes of ethical and political life, reconfiguring those traditions to…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/19/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English