Islamic institutions play the game of the Republic. They respect the legal and political system, but suffer from a contradiction between the principle of equality of religion and the resistance of the population. To put an end to this contradiction, the American ethnographer John Bowen calls for a reinvention of the 1905 law on religious buildings and the adoption of “ reasonable accommodations “.
John Bowen is professor of anthropology at Washington University in Saint-Louis (United States). His research mainly focuses on the integration of Islam in Europe (France and Great Britain) as well as its place in Indonesia, which have constituted his preferred areas of inquiry for many years. He is notably the author of Can Islam be French ? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State (Princeton University Press, 2009) translated under the title French-style Islam (Éditions Steinkis, 2011). To be published in 2012: A New Anthropology of Islam (Cambridge University Press) and Blaming Islam (MIT Press).
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