CSPO 23A02 - Public policy for managing religious diversity in France - Religious Governance

Course Description

This course aims at analyzing the various ways religion is regulated today, with a focus on the European and North-American area. Among others things, it helps understand considerable social in-fights as religious diversity and visibility increase and geopolitical misunderstanding with other regions, such as the MENA region. At the end of the course/upon completion of the course, the student can: - Account for the contemporary religion governance, its origins, principles, policies - Navigate between all the related controversies - Produce an in-depth analysis of a global confrontational issue

Enseignants

Frédéric STRACK

Type

Séminaire

Language of tuition

English

Semester

Autumn 2023-2024

Lectures conseillées / Recommended readings

Lectures principales / Main readings

Charles Taylor (2007), A Secular Age (excerpt)

Grace Davie (1990), Believing without belonging: is this the Future of Religion in Britain?, Social Compass

Walliss John, Beckford James (2006), Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates (excerpts)

Samuel Eisenstadt (2000), Multiples Modernities, Daedalus

Bowen John (2008), Why the French Don't like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space, (excerpt)

Lectures secondaires / Main readings

Alfred Stepan (2000), Religion, Democracy and the Twin Tolerations, Journal of Democracy

Cécile Laborde (2008), Critical republicanism: the Hijab controversy and political philosophy (excerpts)

Nina Käsehage (2021), Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic (excerpts)