Bernard Godard, co-author with Sylvie Taussig of “Les Musulmans en France” (Muslims in France, Hachette 2009), is interviewed here on his perspectives on Islam in France. Godard comments that there has been an institutionalization of Islam in France in the last ten years. Before mayors rarely supported mosque construction, for instance, and this attitude has…
According to the Central Office of the Information of the Interior (DCRI), a growing number of women in Auxerre, France are wearing niqabs and are increasingly conservative in their religious beliefs and practices. They actively proselytize when they pick up their children from school. Bernard Godard, author of Musulmans de France (with Sylvie Taussig, 2007),…
According to France’s Minister of the Interior, there are currently 5 million Muslims living in its border, approximately 5% of which are regular practitioners. In their new book on French Muslims (Les Musulmans en France, _dition Robert Laffont), Bernard Godard and Sylvie Taussig estimate that more that 1.5 million are Algerian or of Algerian-origin. The…
La République & “ses Musulmans” (Séminaire, saison II) Premières rencontres : Mardi 26 juin 2007 à 19h00, FIAP Jean Monnet 30 r Cabanis 75014 Paris, métro Glacière L’Islam comme objet de l’action et du discours publics – 1 Nous commencerons par des rencontres au cours desquelles, par la description des traitements institutionnels appliqués l’islam, nous…
Ce précis de l’islam en France se distingue par son approche sociologique et clairement dépassionnée. Dans un souci permanent d’objectivité, Bernard Godard et Sylvie Taussig ont cherché à comprendre qui sont les millions d’hommes et de femmes, partageant le quotidien de tous les Français, qui appartiennent à cette religion, volontairement ou non, plus ou moins…
