Politics & Religion

by Sami Naïr

In Paris in the autumn of 1989 three Muslim girls, observing their own religious custom, went to school wearing Muslim headscarves. The ensuing political storm, which continued unabated into 1990, has brought sharply into focus one of the fundamental questions related to Western democracy: the nature of the relationship between religion and the state. The 'scarves affair' was primarily a dispute between practitioners of Islam and the secular state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080407943
• ISBN13: 9780080407944
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
• Length: 204 Pages