Read more  "Secularism leads to intense controversies," recalls historian and sociologist Jean Baubérot at the start of this heated correspondence with sociologist Nathalie Heinich. Their exchanges confirm this.
This jewel of French identity is the subject of violent disputes constantly rekindled by current events: from burkinis to hijabeuses – female footballers demanding the wearing of the veil – controversies that do not oppose secularists and anti-secularists but one secularism to another. In the name of which secularism are we speaking? What secularism do we want to defend? 

"Secularism leads to intense controversies," recalls historian and sociologist Jean Baubérot at the start of this heated correspondence with sociologist Nathalie Heinich. Their exchanges confirm this.

This jewel of French identity is the subject of violent disputes constantly rekindled by current events: from burkinis to hijabeuses – female footballers demanding the wearing of the veil – controversies that do not oppose secularists and anti-secularists but one secularism to another. In the name of which secularism are we speaking? What secularism do we want to defend?

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