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  • Religion and Secularism in France Today

    Edited by Philippe Portier, Jean-Paul Willaime ...
    This volume explores the dynamic life of religion and politics in France.The separation of church and state and the autonomy of school education from religion are the two fundamental pillars of France as a secular republic. The historical construction of French secularism (laïcité) was particularly marked by the strong opposition between the state and the Catholic church. However, the religious ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

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  • How the French Think

    An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

    by Sudhir Hazareesingh ...
    Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyleWhy are the French an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? An important reason is that in France intellectual activity is regarded not just as the preserve of the thinking elite but for almost ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Tyranny of Guilt

    An Essay on Western Masochism

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become a pathology, and even an obstacle to fighting today's atrocities. Bruckner, one of France's leading ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • The Politics of the Veil

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • The Dictionary of Homophobia

    A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience

    Edited by Louis-Georges Tin ...
    "Tin's Dictionary of Homophobia is so sweeping in its scope that one can dip into it again and again and learn something, or confront an idea in which even the most well-read queer will find fresh intellectual nourishment and historical illumination."—Gay City NewsBased on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobiais a mammoth, encyclopedic book that ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex & Secularism

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series The Public Square
    How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women—from the author of Gender and the Politics of History .One of The Guardian 's Best Books of the YearJoan Wallach Scott's acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claim... ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secularism Confronts Islam

    by Olivier Roy ...
    Translated by George Holoch ...
    The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French-and, consequently, secular and liberal-society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Duress

    Imperial Durabilities in Our Times

    by Ann Laura Stoler ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing "colonial presence" may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Why the French Don't Like Headscarves

    Islam, the State, and Public Space

    by John R. Bowen ...
    The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in poor suburbs to anti-Semitism. Why the French Don't Like ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Nation, Society and the State

    The Reconciliation of Palestinian and Jewish Nationhood

    by Dr. Abraham Weizfeld ...
    This work treats the European political philosophy that has engendered the Nation-State concept -- considered to be the logical evolution of human history as a linear periodization into the Modern State. This Modern State concept is treated as the end of history in liberal democratic theory, in spite of it remaining a European phenomenon. Where it has been imposed beyond the European political ... Read more

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  • The Cube and the Cathedral

    Europe, America, and Politics Without God

    by George Weigel ...
    Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the Great Arch of La Defense in Paris with the civilization that produced the "cathedral" of Notre-Dame, George Weigel argues that ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Who is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class

    by Emmanuel Todd ...
    In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of ‘Je suis Charlie’?In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD