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By E. McCaffrey

ISBN-10: 0230233775

ISBN-13: 9780230233775

ISBN-10: 1349301809

ISBN-13: 9781349301805

The author examines how social switch and philosophical challenge within the Nineteen Eighties created the stipulations for the go back of faith to modern French highbrow existence. It highlights a severe conjuncture in contemporary French background while faith was once revitalized in French secularism as an expression of person id.

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49 This return of the sacred and a sacred language are also described as a welcome return to the transfiguring potential of overly politicised and fractured societies. Willaime extends this use of the sacred to a defence of religion as ‘a symbolic actuality’, and as a ‘culture’ where religion is perceived to structure identities (individual and collective) and produce alternative ways of understanding. 50 We can see from this very brief outline that, for the period of les trente glorieuses, religion occupied what could be described as its natural place in the modern, secular and republican space – in other words, a private function of free thought.

57 And yet, faced with this religious implosion, I would argue that in recent times the Catholic Church, and specifically the Vatican, has adopted an offensive strategy to re-educate Catholics, not by an accommodation of liberal progressiveness but by a return to strict theological doctrine, a trend which appears set to continue under the papacy of Benedict XVI. While this strategy has angered and alienated many progressive Catholics, its one positive effect has been to foreground important theological tenets, in particular the centrality of reason in the transmission of faith, knowledge and ethics, and how reason may represent the key to a reassessment of the values of laïcité in contemporary France.

The Return of Religion in France 43 Debray charges laïcité with constructing a purity of knowledge. Onedimensional, selective and homogeneous, laïcité is perceived as defending the incompatibility of religious knowledge with a knowledge fit for public consumption. It is a perception grounded on two controversial notions, firstly, that religious belief can prejudice the objective transmission of knowledge and, secondly, that belief is without conceptual rigour and intellectual rationale. In defence of laïcité, the notion of the incorruptibility of knowledge at the point of delivery to the school child is intellectually honest and laudable.

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