Language:
French
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Etudes Théologiques et Religieuses
Angaben zur Quelle:
98,4 (2023) 557-564
Keywords:
Ultra-Orthodox Jews History
;
Religion and state
;
Religious minorities
Abstract:
This thesis analyses the tensions between a conception of religion as something that belongs in the public sphere versus the privatised and plural conception of religion found in secularised societies. In particular, it investigates this tension and its consequences in regard to Orthodox Jews in France, a country that praises itself for being secular since the 1980s. This thesis explores a two-fold phenomenon. On the one hand, it enquires how Orthodox Jews manage to find the leeway they deem necessary to practice their religion in the private and public spheres. Accordingly, it considers their needs and their claims, and the strategies they use to achieve them. On the other hand, this thesis focuses on the public governance of religion. This requires us to study the way that the French state manages a religious minority which seems to go against secularisation. This thesis is based on interviews with Orthodox Jews and political and administrative actors. It also analyses two Orthodox newspapers, and it draws on electoral sociology, sociology of collective action, public policy, and uses tools from the sociology of religion to test the consistency of Orthodox Jews integralism within French society. It thus helps us understand the governance of a religion other than Islam and distinguish between what is related to a particular religion and what is related to orthodoxy in general. In brief, this thesis shows the breakdown of intransigent integralism due to negative reactions from public institutions and to the secularisation it fails to halt.
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