Quand les villes font appel aux religions : Laïcité et nouvelles prises en compte de la pluralité religieuse

Lamine, Anne-Sophie

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“…In particular, the development of the "super-diversity" approach associated with Steve Vertovec (2007, see also , Gidley 2019 highlights the diversification of differences -the proliferation of, and interactions between, lines of nationality, 'race' and ethnicity, faith and class, among other axes -and points towards power geometries and inequalities within as well as between apparent groups. This approach allows us to see faith alongside race as a determining but still contingent and intersectional dimension of social fates, and Lamine (2004) has shown that, even in avowedly secular France, municipal actors have begun to embrace a diversity paradigm in engaging with religious minorities.…”

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Jews and Muslims in Europe

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2022

Jews and Muslims in Europe

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“…In parallel, there is a trend towards promoting mechanisms of deliberative and participatory democracy, which municipal authorities use, among other things, to improve management and fight communautarisme (Jouve 2005). 2 Despite France's legal separation of church and state, participatory devices have also spread in the field of religion, and religious actors are increasingly conceived as governance partners because they provide urban political authorities with important resources (De Galembert 2006;Lamine 2004b). The three participatory bodies in this study constitute 'invited spaces' in which the municipality invites different urban actors, including religious actors, to participate.…”

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Governing Islam in French cities: defining ‘acceptable’ public religiosity through municipal consultative bodies

Martínez-Ariño

2019

Religion, State and Society

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In recent years, European states have institutionalised relations with Islamic groups in the form of national Islam councils. Similarly, municipalities have set up more or less comparable bodies to address issues related to urban religious diversity. However, rather than being restricted to Muslim representatives, municipal consultative bodies usually incorporate a variety of religious actors. This contribution analyses three such bodies in the French cities of Rennes, Bordeaux, and Toulouse. Adopting a governance perspective and drawing on qualitative fieldwork, I argue that by providing concrete advice on how to address religious issues, these bodies define what are considered 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' public religious expressions, ultimately influencing normative ideas about laïcité. Moreover, I argue that the history of relationships between religious and municipal authorities and the political culture of the cities, among other factors, shape these local processes, thereby emphasising the distinct role of cities and urban actors in governing religion.

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“…« Municipal interreligious dialogue in Bordeaux: between the 'politics of diversity' and a Catholicentric laïcité », Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion n°10 «Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to stance is in line with the position of Alain Juppé, who refuses to view laïcité as a right-wing idea or as an instrument of discrimination against Muslims in France. Lamine (2004) has suggested that inter-religious dialogue as a contribution to "living together" might be regarded as an ideal-type of "civil religion" congruent with the French model of laïcité. Such a civil religion could indeed enable political leaders to take the religious pluralization of large French cities into account, and to seemingly respect the principle of neutrality by integrating all religious actors on equal terms.…”

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Municipal Interreligious Dialogue in Bordeaux: Between the “Politics of Diversity” and a Catholicentric Laïcité

Malogne-Fer

2019

Volume 10: Interreligious Dialogue

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Every year since 2009, the municipality of Bordeaux has been organizing an inter-religious conference known as Bordeaux Partages Sharing in Bordeaux, in connection with the city's inter-religious council. 1 During this public conference, leaders of numerous locally established religions gather on the same stage with Alain Juppé, the mayor of Bordeaux, to debate on societal and economic issues, and to highlight the vital contribution of religion to city life. Drawing on studies of similar initiatives, notably in Marseille and Roubaix, A.-S. Lamine (2004) remarks that inter-religious dialogue forms "a both formal and informal partnership between religions and the city, focused on 'living together'". These initiatives incorporate, to varying degrees, the issue of cultural diversity: while Marseille-Espérance is also a space for inter-community harmony, Roubaix-Espérance claims a specifically religious dimension but includes agnostics and the fédérations laïques (Lamine, 2004). To what extent has the emergence of a 'diversity' paradigm in the mid-'00s (Bereni and Jaunait, 2009) influenced the local management of religious plurality? And what can municipal initiatives tell us about representations of the French model of laïcité? Faced with growing debates and political controversies that emphasize the normative and ideological dimensions of laïcité in France, historian J. Baubérot recalls that indeed "there is no single 'French model' of laïcité, but only different representations, depending on the social actors involved" (2015: 16). This should prompt us to develop more empirical studies of everyday practices implemented at the local level by municipalities and religious actors. In this chapter, analysis of inter-religious dialogue in Bordeaux aims to specify the articulation of the ideological and empirical dimensions of French laïcité, and to examine the influence of the 'politics of diversity' on local practices. Following an exploration of the genealogy of the Bordeaux Partages conference, I consider how the selection of themes and religious protagonists offers important clues for understanding the municipal management of religious plurality. Further, I seek to explain why, although Bordeaux Partages relies on a conception of laïcité which has much in common with that of the local Catholic hierarchy, this hegemonic 2019. « Municipal interreligious dialogue in Bordeaux: between the 'politics of diversity' and a Catholicentric laïcité », Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion n°10 «Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics» dir. par Giuseppe Giordan et Andrew Lynch p. 146-164.

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Quand les villes font appel aux religions : Laïcité et nouvelles prises en compte de la pluralité religieuse

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