laïcité

• When Obama said that he rejects "the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal," many people in France heard a shot at the country's republican laïcité, which demands that faith be wholly relegated to the private sphere. —  The American Prospect Articles
• In the middle of 2008 France denied citizenship to a woman because her values were incompatible with laïcité, the principle of the secular State.
• 'Contradictions' and "Du bon usage de la laïcité", that argues for an open and democratic form of secularism. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
• But France is also where modern anti-clericalism became ascendant with the 1789 Revolution, which eventually led to the thick black line separating church and state known as laïcité, and the arrival of humanist reason as the guiding principle in contemporary culture. —  Clerical Whispers
• French President Nicolas Sarkozy has poked at this spiritual status quo, using a visit to Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran to call for a "positive" conception of laïcité, which would also encourage public expressions of faith. —  Clerical Whispers

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