Is French laïcité Still Liberal? The Republican Project under Pressure (2004–15)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16765019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez (Université Paris Nanterre, corresponding author), Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 285-312 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Rights Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-7781 • E-ISSN: 1744-1021 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hrlr/ngx014 |
| OpenAlex | W2616087877 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
La cite has assumed centre stage in much of the public debate in France over a little more than a decade. As it retraces the main legal developments that this heightened debate has triggered, the present article underlines the radical transformation the French constitutional principle has undergone. It insists that the principle has assumed a meaning that radically contrasts with its Republican articulation in the law of 1905: it now applies to private individuals (and no longer commands only public authorities), has come to being equated with a commandment of religious neutrality (whereas it did not for most of the twentieth century) and is mainly applied to (if not targeted at) Muslim women. For all these reasons, it is argued that French la cite can no longer be coined 'liberal'.
Articulation (sociology) · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Neutrality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Political and Social Issues · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |