Secularism Confronts Islam

Olivier Roy

Paper, 144 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14103-1
$19.95 / £13.95

August, 2007
Cloth, 144 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14102-4
$25.50 / £17.50

Preface

Introduction: Laïcité and the Identity of France

1. French Laïcité and Islam: Which Is the Exception?

2. Islam and Secularization

3. The Crisis of the Secular State and the New Forms of Religiosity

4. De Facto Secularization

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Islam
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Olivier Roy is research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and lectures at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris. His books with Columbia University Press include The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East; Globalized Islam; and, with Amel Boubekeur, Whatever Happened to the Islamists? Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims, and the Lure of Consumerist Islam.

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