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Oliphant, Elayne.

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Signs of an unmarked faith: Visions of secularism, Catholicism, and Islam in Paris.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Signs of an unmarked faith: Visions of secularism, Catholicism, and Islam in Paris./
Author:	Oliphant, Elayne.
Description:	350 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-05A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3548256
ISBN:	9781267835338

Signs of an unmarked faith: Visions of secularism, Catholicism, and Islam in Paris.
Oliphant, Elayne.

Signs of an unmarked faith: Visions of secularism, Catholicism, and Islam in Paris. - 350 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2012.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation examines the prospects of laicite (secularism) in France today by exploring transformations in perceptions of symbols and practices associated with the Roman Catholic faith. My research works counter to many social scientific studies of religion and secularism in France that presume challenges to the French state's neutrality vis-a-vis religious groups and organizations arise from Islam. In two years of ethnographic and archival research in Paris, I examined how expressions of laicite in France do not look at all religions equally. In contrast to how signs of Islam are understood to be excessively visible and, therefore, require increasing regulation, I argue that signs associated with Catholicism often go quietly unremarked as they are made ever more commensurable with a Republican and secular French identity. The non-regulation of Catholic signs, however, takes significant social and cultural work. That work is the focus of this ethnography as I unravel the multiple and contradictory ways in which sights, spaces, images, and signs in and of Paris are seen today.

ISBN: 9781267835338Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Signs of an unmarked faith: Visions of secularism, Catholicism, and Islam in Paris.
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520 $a This dissertation examines the prospects of laicite (secularism) in France today by exploring transformations in perceptions of symbols and practices associated with the Roman Catholic faith. My research works counter to many social scientific studies of religion and secularism in France that presume challenges to the French state's neutrality vis-a-vis religious groups and organizations arise from Islam. In two years of ethnographic and archival research in Paris, I examined how expressions of laicite in France do not look at all religions equally. In contrast to how signs of Islam are understood to be excessively visible and, therefore, require increasing regulation, I argue that signs associated with Catholicism often go quietly unremarked as they are made ever more commensurable with a Republican and secular French identity. The non-regulation of Catholic signs, however, takes significant social and cultural work. That work is the focus of this ethnography as I unravel the multiple and contradictory ways in which sights, spaces, images, and signs in and of Paris are seen today.
520 $a A central site of my research was a thirteenth century Cistercian college purchased from the state by the archdiocese of Paris in order to create a twenty-first century space of art exhibition and intellectual debate. That the Catholic Church in France is investing significant funds in a "cultural" project, a space not devoted to mass or the sacraments, opens a space for analyzing important shifts in Catholic practices today. I pay heed to the strategic actions of the institutional Church as it offers up new forms of practice---such as contemporary art viewing---and as it presents these actions as simultaneously contemporary and historical, situated and timeless, secular and religious, Catholic and French. In addition to interrogating this specific site, I detail how the visual world that confronts city dwellers---including steeples, national museums, crucifixes, niqabs, and works of visual art---produces Catholicism as a mode of being latent in the very foundations of Paris and its citizens. In scrutinizing the visual dimension of the Parisian cityscape, I demonstrate how we can approach secularism and religion not as stable categories existing a priori, but as variously produced in different spaces and times. The clear and unquestioned distinction between religion and secularism is a boundary that presumes a host of other contrasts: between tradition and modernity, belief and knowledge, faith and doubt, and even violence and reason. In my exploration of Catholicism in France today, I demonstrate how secularism and religion are always already combined in ways that cannot easily be separated, while also identifying the ideological effects of claims that take these categories for granted. Many historians and philosophers have highlighted how the diverse forms of secularism found throughout Europe are informed by different Judeo-Christian traditions. I build from this linkage while also working to denaturalize it by focusing on the ways in which ecclesiastical representatives, citizens, and intellectuals in France---both strategically and unwittingly---inhabit, create, and reference a visual landscape in Paris in which secularism has a Catholic flair and Catholicism can appear surprisingly secular.
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