Religions and Living Together : Laicity, Secularization, and the the Islamic Perspective

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22320017
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Religious studies
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: MASUDA Kazuo 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (70209435)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): DATE Kiyonobu 上智大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (90550004) ; AMINO Tetsuya 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (60212578) ; SUGITA Hideaki 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (90179143) ; NAGASAWA Eiji 東京大学, 東洋文化研究所, 教授 (00272493) ; MURAMATSU Mariko 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (80262062) ; YAGUCHI Yujin 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (00271700) ; YASUOKA Haruko 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (90210244) ; FURUYA Jun 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (90091488)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 宗教 / 政教分離 / ライシテ / フランス / エジプト / 宗教間対話 / 移民

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In their distrust towards the phenomena questioning the "religious modernity" (reactivation of the religions, the conservative revolutions, the Islamic popular movements), the western societies advocate the respect for the democratic values which, sometimes, turn against religious minorities. Our research tried to analyze how these values were mobilized against certain religious minorities and served to cover, otherwise to hide the social questions caused by the globalization. In France, we can observe an attempt of the State organizing a“French Islam”, a gesture hardly compatible with the notion of “laicity”. But laicity was the very value brandished as representing the national identity, marginalizing Muslim minority and making it more difficult to approach as social issues the questions of discrimination, disparities and racism inherited from the colonial past.

Free Research Field

哲学