Author
Arslan, Berna Zengin, Açımuz, Hayriye Bige
Publication Date
2021
Publication Place
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Brill Academic Publishers
Subject
Fondation de l'Islam de France, France, French Islam, Islam, Laïcité, Management of religion, Observatoire de la laïcité, Secularism
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
2212-4810
Record ID
3104ffb3-6a55-430e-88d0-33d3bc50f8db
Library Location
Humanities and Social Sciences
Date
2021
Sample Text
This paper focuses on management of Islam by the French State since the state of emergency declared in 2015. We analyze the legal actions of the State using a law-in-context approach and theorize secularism as the State's management of religion. We focus on the Senate Report (2016) concerning Muslim worship, the legal changes wrought by the state of emergency, and the institutions formed to govern Islam and secularism. We examine whether there has been a change in the French State's approach to Muslim worship. Rather than remaining neutral, the French State has become even more actively involved in the field of religion by adopting a reformist attitude intended to transform not the principles of laïcité but the Muslims in France. In this period, the State has taken concrete steps and built institutions both to support the formation of a secularized French Islam and to govern the boundaries of laïcité.
DOI
10.1163/22124810-2021J001
Cilt
9
