Secularism, assimilation and the crisis of multiculturalism French modernist legacies

Jansen's book shows how even the most sophisticated academic views defending secularism and assimilation remain rooted in unexamined 'modernist dichotomies' inherited from French (and to some extent, European) modernism -- Publisher's description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jansen, Yolande
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam [Netherlands] Amsterdam University Press [2013]©2013, 2013
Series:IMISCOE Research
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 1. Introduction: the crisis of multiculturalism, new assimilationism and secularism
  • 2. Assimilation in the French sociology of incorporation from a multicultural perspective
  • 3. The liberal sociology of assimilation and citizenship and its transnationalist alternatives
  • 4. Alfred Bloch's personal integration test at the threshold of his friend's home
  • 5. Stuck in a revolving door
  • 6. Elements of a critique of the laïcité-religion framework
  • 7. Secularism, sociology and security
  • 8. The highly precarious structure of assimilation: modernist philosophical schemes, memory and the Proustian narrative
  • 9. Concluding remarks