Jews and Muslims in France: Changing responses to cultural and religious diversity

Martine Cohen (1)

1 GSRL - Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités

French Society doesn't accept diversity today as it did in the 1970s and 1980s, when a Jewish renewal sprang. Changes in the international political context, notably the rise of political radical Islam, are now raising fears of social fragmentation. As a consequence, new debates on secularism oppose now the proponents of a "strict laïcité" to those of "multiculturalism".

Mots clés: Secularism; Multiculturalism; Laïcité; France; Jews; Muslims; Ethnicity; Dreyfus Affair; Vichy Regime; Headscarf; disciminations

Domaines: Sociologie

Martine Cohen. Jews and Muslims in France: Changing responses to cultural and religious diversity. 2008. ⟨halshs-00276211⟩