Paper's abstract

Olivier Abel, Tolerance and laïcité
After stating the historical diversity of forms of tolerance, we attempt to show how laïcité is torn between the obligation to counter the global uniformisation and the obligation to counter the identitary balkanisation. The political problem of the delicate transition to a post-national system is complicated by the theological problem of the room that must be left to creative and alive, but sincerely pluralistic, convictions. These are the two faces of the same problem.


Key Words : uniformization, tolerance, balkanization, creed, pluralism
t. 48, 2004 : p. 19-26