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This book examines matters of religious freedom in Europe, considers the work of the European Court of Human Rights in this area, explores issues of multiculturalism and secularism in France, of women in Islam, and of Muslims in the West. The work present
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Melanie Adrian
Religious Freedom at Risk The EU, French Schools, and Why the Veil was Banned
Muslims in Global Societies Series Volume 8
Series editors Gabriele Marranci, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Cardiff University, Wales, UK Bryan S. Turner, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
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Melanie Adrian
Religious Freedom at Risk The EU, French Schools, and Why the Veil was Banned
Melanie Adrian Department of Law and Legal Studies Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Muslims in Global Societies Series ISBN 978-3-319-21445-0 ISBN 978-3-319-21446-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21446-7
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Dedicated to the memory of two trailblazers: Professor Werner K. Adrian Professor Kevin Boyle
Foreword
With this book, Melanie Adrian makes an extremely valuable contribution in at least two ways. First, she illuminates afresh a much-discussed subject — controversies over two recent French laws, one banning Muslim headscarves in schools (2004) and the other prohibiting Muslim women from wearing facial coverings in public (2011) — by becoming what used to be called a “participant observer” but what one anthropologist now better describes as an “observing participant.” Without eliminating sensitivity to cultural variation, such an approach modifies “the idea of cultural relativity with notions of universal human values and human rights in increasingly more areas of inquiry.”1 Adrian spent 2005-2006 teaching English at a public school in Dammarie-lesLys, a cité or residential area for foreign workers mainly from Muslim countries, located some forty-five minutes
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