Margarita Mooney review's Raphael Liogier's 'Legitimate' Laicite: France and its State Religions (Entrelacs, 2006) in Contemporary Sociology (sub. required).
‘Legitimate’ Laicite
laïcité
Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
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