Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism(English, Paperback, Jansen Yolande)

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Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism(English, Paperback, Jansen Yolande) is written by Jansen Yolande and published by Amsterdam University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9089645969 (ISBN 10) and 9789089645968 (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.