Secular Sensibilities: Romance, Marriage, and Contemporary Algerian Immigration to France and Québec

by Jennifer A. Selby

How do secular politics work to manage the emotional, affective, and embodied nature of religion in the public sphere? Drawing on an expansive transnational ethnography in France and Canada and assessing contemporary French and Quebecois governmental legislation on secularism and immigration, Jennifer Selby considers expectations for secular bodies and sensibilities among men and women of Algerian origin. In her subjects' evocative narratives of longing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469685825
• ISBN13: 9781469685823
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 280 Pages