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Article: Religious Freedom and Laïcité: A Comparison of the United States and France

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January 1, 2004
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I. INTRODUCTION

The word laïcité is used in France to summarize prevailing beliefs regarding the proper relationship between religion and the French state.2 A term that plays a similar role in the United States, albeit with a very different meaning, is "religious freedom." These two conc epts, at first glance, would seem to suggest profoundly different attitudes regarding the proper relationship between religion and the state. Whereas laïcité might imply suspicion (or perhaps even hostility) toward religion, religious freedom suggests that the state wishes to embrace religion full y, possibly to the exclusion of agnosticism and atheism. Public opinion surveys would seem to support such a ...

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