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French / France

Guide du mieux-vivre ensemble. Ma laïcité, ma religion, mon identité

(Guide for better living together. My secularism, religion and identity)

Banon, Patrick (text)
Boutin, Anne-Lise (illus.)
Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône): Actes Sud junior, [2016]. – 103 p.
ISBN 978-2-330-05765-7

Migration  | Multicultural society  | Culture  | Religion  | Democracy  | Non-fiction

Reading age: 15+

White Ravens issue: 2016

OPAC

Diversity expert Patrick Banon examines some of the important questions forcefully asserting themselves in the wake of the 2015 terrorist attacks in France and the rapid rise of extreme right-wing parties and populist groups (not only) in French society: How can one live peacefully in a heterogeneously composed society? How can one give new life to the aspirations of liberty, equality, solidarity, human rights and secularism in the imperfect democracies of Europe? How can one discuss complex questions concerning identity, religion, secularism and atheism in a manner that is at once respectful and critical? At the end of this young adult non-fiction book, Banon actively brings these aspirations together by offering a sketch of what an ethical charter could look like. Its realization will call on precisely the vigour, confidence and uncompromising resolve of the younger generation.