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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-24 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-22 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to ever
Language: en
Pages: 397
Pages: 397
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-09 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
The first comprehensive analysis of the philosophical issues raised by the hijab controversy in France, this book also conducts a dialogue between contemporary
Language: en
Pages: 255
Pages: 255
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-21 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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