In March 2013, the Defender of Rights published a report on Equal access for children to the primary school canteen. In addition to the issues of pricing, care for children with disabilities and consideration of food allergies, it deals with ‘access to the canteen in the light of religious or philos...

secularisation and secularisation: this seminar was an opportunity to present the major players involved in contemporary European secularisation and the issues underlying the secularisation and religious pluralisation of today’s Western societies. The different spiritual families currently present i...

The work of the enlightened hispano-American Jews, residing in Italy, reveals a wide and diverse cultural panorama, beyond the great signatures such as Viscardo or Clavigero. Since the 18th century italic peninsula, melancolic but also committed literature has become, in the long term, the extension...

The secularism without democracy The renewal of Islamist movements experienced in most Muslim countries since the late 70s refers to the question of whether Islam is compatible with democracy. In substance, this question has several dimensions. First, Islam as a religion is often seen as an obstacle...

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In this paper, we heed the recent call by migration and urban studies scholars to bring questions of space, locality and culture squarely into discussions of immigrant incorporation. While many urban studies scholars focus on how specific “global cities” influence and are influenced by worldwide eco...

Since the 1980s, they have been receiving immigrants who are gradually entering and stabilising in Spanish society. Latin Americans, which are now the most important foreign group in Spain, have developed multiple forms of integration, one of which involves joining different pentecostal churches. Ba...

The feeling of a fragility of secularism is a good starting point for our reflection, because this fragility attests at the same time to the fact that secularism is in a critical situation, that it designates less the full extent of a response than the form of a problem; and that, however, it must b...

The secularism is a trap. It can be real or supposed, legal or political, official or civil. Furthermore, the very nature of each religion, with the dynamics of each country, means that secularism becomes a relative term and practice, requiring a reassessment of the context in which it occurs. Follo...

The end of the USSR in 1991 led to the emergence of new republics in Central Asia. Close to Turkey culturally and profoundly, these new states have been put by Ankara at the centre of an ambitious policy of rapprochement so as to provide Turkey with a sphere of influence based on turcophonia. Parado...

In contemporary societies, changing religion remains a process that has a significant impact at individual, collective level and a strictly political dimension, to which states are not indifferent. Religious conversion is often tantamount to changing part of his identity, separating itself from an i...

The Colloquium “Islam et Laïcité” was co-organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Non-Arab Muslim Mediterranean Societies (ERISM) of the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilisations (Paris) and the French Institute of Anatolian Etudes (IFEA) in Istanbul. The meeting consisted...

The article analyses judgment No 210.000 of 21 December 2010 of the Belgian Council of State, which deals with the question of the lawfulness of the prohibition on the wearing of a religious sign by a teacher of a subsidised official school. This decision is first set in the socio-historical context...

The secularism observatory publishes a guide on the management of religious events in business, and a on secularism and local authorities.

by Fabienne Bontempi, an aggregate professor of modern letters, secular reference from the Academy of Toulouse (2015-2017); From “Politics, Religion, Laicité” Download the background and objectives of the study What heritage for the transmission of values to the Republican School? The design of educ...

England, France and Italy have opted, for political as well as historical and cultural reasons, for a very different type of regulation of their relations with the various Churches present on their territories, by choosing a system of Establishment, strict separation or concordat, today extended to...

Is Islam compatible with secularism? This type of question is recurrent — news is a constant reminder. And there are many who answer it in the negative. From a colloquium of young researchers held in January 2012 at the University of Maine, this book sets out, on the other hand, the variety of relat...

Eight representatives and deputies, an irremovable senator, himself former representative... The presence of priests in the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Third Republic between 1871 and 1914 could be anecdote, as well as the always limited number of unhappy ecclesiastical nominations. However, it...

Gestion des édifices cultuels, financement des écoles privées confessionnelles, intervention étatique dans la création du Conseil français du culte musulman et la formation des imams, autorisations d’absence et port de signes religieux dans les services publics, mais aussi résurgence d’un ordre mora...

This encyclopaedia deals with citizenship in all its aspects: from the declaration of civil status to sustainable development, the family and its developments, school and secularism, law, criminal and civil codes, democracy, the French constitution, individual freedoms, Europe, child labour, NGOs, e...