Islam in France Reconfigured
Republican Islam in the 2010 Gerin Report
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6085779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer A Selby (0000-0002-8595-4078) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-398 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-6952 • E-ISSN: 1469-9591 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13602004.2011.599544 |
| OpenAlex | W1983951133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
This paper examines the 2010 Gerin Report on the prevalence and dangers of donning the voile intégral (full-face veils, namely niqabs and burqas) in the Republic to consider the implications of its configuration of Islam in France. With reference to five other recent reports and commissions in France on the visibility and appropriateness of religious signs in the public sphere, I suggest that the Gerin Report differs in two significant ways. First, the Report does not explicitly promote French secularism. While laïcité is underscored as integral to a vivre-ensemble (living together), the document positions full-face coverings not as religious symbols but as political, Islamist signs. Second, the Report singularly focuses on disputed Islamic head-coverings and, with reference to religious experts, carefully constructs niqabs and burqas as outside of theologically "proper" Republican Islam. Following consideration of these two features, I conclude by pointing to how the Gerin Report's politicization of the voile intégral is reflected in recent citizenship decisions and through the interactions of a large French feminist organization with Muslim women in a Parisian banlieue (suburb
Citizenship · Face (sociological concept · Geography · Islam · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Secularism · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Visibility · Gender Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
Islam as a Civilizational Threat
Negotiating Republican Islam
French secularism as a ‘guarantor’ of women's rights? Muslim women and gender politics in a Parisian banlieue
Education, secularism, and illiberalism
Sweden’s Burka Ban
Social reproduction in France
The Limits of European Islam
Laïcité as assimilation, laïcité as negotiation
"Muslimness" and multiplicity in qualitative research and in government reports in Canada
C'est plus traditionnel ici qu'au bled ! Analyse socio-spatiale du traditionalisme religieux dans une banlieue parisienne
The Prosaic Stateness of Secularism
Un/veiling Women's Bodies
Marianne at the Beach
Promoting the Everyday
Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban
Defacing Levinas
Veiled Nannies and Secular Futures in France
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |