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YOLANDE JANSEN but in order to ‘‘s’autoconstituer comme sujet [constitute oneself as a subject].’’^24 Accord- ing to Kintzler, t ...

LAI ̈CITE ́ F I G U R E 1 2 Jules-Fe ́lix Grandjouan: ‘‘Toujours les idoles.’’ (From Pierre Nora, ed., Les Lieux de me ́moire[Pa ...

YOLANDE JANSEN heteronomy means that ‘‘the moral rule is the product of a collectivity, we receive it much more than that we mak ...

LAI ̈CITE ́ from an other, whose essence is unknown to us and speaks to man through this, his own reason. At bottom we would per ...

YOLANDE JANSEN where Islam has become a minoritarian religion and has thus been brought to recognize a secular realm ‘‘outside’’ ...

LAI ̈CITE ́ the members of majorities and ‘‘making’’ culture in the process? Moreover, by not dis- tancing himself clearly from ...

YOLANDE JANSEN This is problematic not only theoretically but also politically: it draws boundaries between an Islam inextricabl ...

LAI ̈CITE ́ others by cultural majorities. There is a subtext of ethnic othering and xenophobia linked to Islam that is difficul ...

Trying to Understand French Secularism Talal Asad In modern society there is typically a multiplicity of religious beliefs and i ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM pelagos of solidarity set in seas of danger or distaste, that do not coincide with state ...

TALAL ASAD societies must be ‘‘open’’ implies that majorities do not have an absolute right to remain undisturbed. Even in a dem ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM restatement oflaı ̈cite ́from an anthropological perspective, by which I mean simply tryi ...

TALAL ASAD (the religion of the ruler is the religion of his subjects). This agreement is part of the genealogy of secularizatio ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM ambition. By then, of course, the essence of religion had come increasingly to be defined ...

TALAL ASAD One way of looking at the problem that interests me is this: since ‘‘religion’’ directs the attention of subjects too ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM schools—including veils, kippas, and large crosses worn around the neck. On the other han ...

TALAL ASAD the cross by both sexes. The object of the whole exercise is, of course, to ban the Islamic veil partly because it is ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM accessible from outside is felicitous for secularism. It opens up the universal prospect ...

TALAL ASAD the extent that this is so, the commission was a device toconstitutemeanings by drawing on internal (psychological) o ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM although religion may never intervene in matters of state. This asymmetry is, I suggest, ...