Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism

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Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism is written by Yolande Jansen and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040792332 (ISBN 10) and 9781040792339 (ISBN 13).

This remarkable study develops a theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation, arguing that the perspective of assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular and supposedly neutral public sphere may be self-subverting. To flesh out this insight, Jansen draws on the paradoxes of assimilation as experienced by the French Jews in the late 19th century through a contextualised reading of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. She proposes a dynamic, critical multiculturalism as an alternative to discourses focusing on secularism, assimilation and integration.