Les tentatives d’organisation du culte musulman en France au prisme du principe de laïcité

For the past twenty years, the public authorities have sought to institutionally organize Islam in order to enable its peaceful practice and thereby promote the integration of Muslim citizens into the national community. This policy is not without evoking the regime of recognized religious bodies as...

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Main Author: Pierre-Henri Prélot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg 2018-11-01
Series:Revue du Droit des Religions
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rdr/324
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Summary:For the past twenty years, the public authorities have sought to institutionally organize Islam in order to enable its peaceful practice and thereby promote the integration of Muslim citizens into the national community. This policy is not without evoking the regime of recognized religious bodies as it functioned in the nineteenth century, and which provided the State with social control over religious forces. However, efforts to organize the Muslim faith are now part of the legal framework of laïcité, which obliges the public authorities to be neutral and to respect the self-determination of religions. Our purpose is precisely to demonstrate that these efforts are consistent with the requirement of laïcité, which implies guaranteeing freedom of religion within the bounds of public order.
ISSN:2493-8637
2534-7462