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The New Heretics of France - Minority Religions, la Republique, and the Government-Sponsored ''War on Sects'' (Hardcover, New)
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The New Heretics of France - Minority Religions, la Republique, and the Government-Sponsored ''War on Sects'' (Hardcover, New)
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Since the Age of Enlightenment, France has upheld clear
constitutional guidelines that protect human rights and religious
freedom. Today, however, intolerant attitudes and discriminatory
practices towards unconventional faiths have become acceptable and
even institutionalized in public life. Susan Palmer offers an
insightful examination of France's most stigmatized new religions,
or ''sectes,'' and the public management of religious and
philosophical minorities by the state. The New Heretics of France
tracks the mounting government-sponsored anticult movement in the
wake of the shocking mass suicides of the Solar Temple in 1994, and
the negative impact of this movement on France's most visible
religious minorities, whose names appeared on a ''blacklist'' of
172 sectes commissioned by the National Assembly. Drawing on
extensive interviews and field research, Palmer describes the
controversial histories of well-known international NRMs (the
Church of Scientology, Raelian Movement, and Unificationism) in
France, as well as esoteric local groups. Palmer also reveals the
partisanship of Catholic priests, journalists, village mayors, and
the passive public who support La Republique's efforts to control
minority faiths - all in the name of ''Liberty, Equality and
Fraternity.'' Drawing on historical and sociological theory, Palmer
analyzes France's war on sects as a strategical response to social
pressures arising from globalization and immigration. Her study
addresses important issues of religious freedom, public tolerance,
and the impact of globalization and immigration on traditional
cultures and national character.
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