CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: A religious crisis
The terminal crisis in Catholicism
Religious decline and the rise of xenophobia
Catholic France and secular France: 1750-1960
The two Frances and equality
From the One God to the single currency
Francois Hollande, the Left, and zombie Catholicism 2005: a missed opportunity in class struggle?
Difficult atheism
CHAPTER TWO: Charlie
Charlie: middle class and zombie Catholics
Neo-republicanism
1992-2015: from pro-Europeanism to neo-republicanism
The neo-republican reality: the ‘social state’ of the middle classes
Charlie is anxious
Secularism versus the Left
Catholicism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism
CHAPTER THREE: When equality fails
The difficulties of secular, egalitarian France
The anthropology of a capitalism in crisis
The Europe of inequality
France, the Germans and the Arabs
Germany and circumcision
The great pro-European happening of 11 January 2015 Russia: an exceptional case
The mystery of Paris
The memory of places
The four stages of the crisis
CHAPTER FOUR: The French of the Far Right
The slow march of the National Front towards la France central
A perversion of universalism
Republican anti-Semitism
Le Pen, Sarkozy and equality
The Socialist Party and inequality: the concept of objective xenophobia
Melenchon and inequality
The insignificance of human beings and the violence of ideologies
CHAPTER FIVE: The French Muslims
The disintegration of North African cultures
Mixed marriages: Jews and Muslims
Ideologues and exogamy
The crushing of young people and the jihad factory
Scottish fundamentalism
Moving beyond the fear of religion
Islam and equality
The inequality of the sexes
The anti-Semitism of the suburbs
CONCLUSION
The real republican past
The neo-republican present
Future 1: Confrontation
Future 2: the return to the Republic: an accommodation with Islam
A foreseeable deterioration
The secret weapon of the republican revival