Raphaël Liogier

Raphaël Liogier is director of the Observatoire of the monk and professor of the universities to the Institut of political studies of Aix-en-Provence and to IMPGT.

He collaborated in the drafting of several articles on the topic of the religions.

Liogier wrote his thesis on the Bouddhisme under the direction of Bruno Etienne professor emeritus with the Institut of political studies of Aix-en-Provence and inter alia, published a work on the Laïcité in 2006.

In its book on “legitimate secularity”, completely unperceived past , he proposes the thesis according to which French secularity would have evolved/moved of the concept “of incompetence” of the religious matter State (law of 1905 - art 2: the State does not recognize. .aucun worship) with the concept of neutrality. Declaring itself “neutral”, the State is then authorized to deliver opinions on what is or is not a worship. While claiming not to intervene in the religious affairs, the State would do it in an extensive way and considerably more than in the countries not proclaiming itself laic, such as for example England, and which would however show a larger opening to religious diversity. Raphaël Liogier illustrates this contradictory posture in the treatment of the question of the sects and that of Islam. It worries owing to the fact that secularity can become a tool for repression of the spiritual minorities by the use without understanding of the word “sect”.

On the topic of Islam, through an investigation led to the Observatory of the Monk, he concludes that secularity (through the conclusions of the Stasi commission) established, without investigation, the concept of " veil imposé" with the young French Moslem women to justify the law on the port of the veil, whereas its study would show on the contrary a majority of deliberate choices and argued.

In a more general way, it tries to show how these questions are in connection with the existence of an doctrinaire approach which would be dominant and increasing in France: “How to arrive at being classified like “normal”? There is not an other possibility only of having “official esthetics”, to correspond to the dominant culture, the taste dominating”.

Works

a secularity " légitime" , France and its religions of State , Médicis Entrelas, March 2006
To be Buddhist today in France (with Bruno Etienne), Paris, Geopolitical Hatchet, 2004.
of Christianity (with Blandine Chelini-Bridge), Ellipses, 2003
Buddhism mondialized , Ellipses, 2003

External bond

Observatory of the monk

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