US EditionSecularity, an Explosive Concept at the Heart of the 1905 Law
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The President of the Republic celebrated the 120th anniversary of the law of separation between the Church and the State in an address on X on Tuesday, 9 December.
This old republican principle, adopted 120 years ago, is addressed at school. Today, teachers have to deal with students who have a more restrictive vision of secularism.
Sensitive to the republican cause as to freedom of conscience, Protestant figures marked the work for the adoption of the law on laicity in France on December 9, 1905.
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Contests of courses, provocations and the wearing of religious signs persist, pushing the ministry to strengthen training and protections for teachers, 120 years after the law of 1905.
What is the status of secularism, 120 years after the 1905 law? This principle, enshrined in the Constitution for more than a century, continues to unleash passions, each making its own reading of this concept that has become very political.
TRIBUNE. On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the law of 1905 on the separation of churches and the state, the educational historian Claude Lelièvre returns to another important moment in the construction of the principle of secularism: Jules Ferry's ministry in the 1880s.
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