The New Heretics of France: Minority Religions, la République, and the Government-Sponsored “War on Sects,”
Considering the extreme difficulty of undertaking any serious research on such a topic in France, where positions remain highly polarized, Susan J. Palmer's work is impressive, both in terms of field work and of its fundamental orientation. In the Hexagon, the scientific, social, and media-rela...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2012
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 73, Issue: 3, Pages: 346-348 |
| Review of: | The new heretics of France (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011) (Borde, Melchior Pelleterat De)
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| Summary: | Considering the extreme difficulty of undertaking any serious research on such a topic in France, where positions remain highly polarized, Susan J. Palmer's work is impressive, both in terms of field work and of its fundamental orientation. In the Hexagon, the scientific, social, and media-related obstacles are still such that a French religious sociologist would be hard put—or would not be able at all—to produce so well documented a study., The main interest of the book is to succeed in highlighting the gaping divide between the Anglo-Saxon and the French approaches to religious freedom. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srs046 |