Secular Institutions, Islam and Education Policy

Paola Mattei is Associate Professor in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford, UK and Fellow of St Antony's College. She has published Restructuring Welfare Organisations in Europe: From Democracy to Good Management?, University Adaptation in Difficult Economic Times and Public Accountability and Health Care Governance. Andrew Aguilar is a France Fulbright Fellow for the 2015-2016 academic year. He also holds visiting research appointments at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK, and at the Center of International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po Paris, France.

"This deeply-researched account of Islam and secularity with special emphasis on the failures of the national school system in France will be valuable to all who are concerned with a life-and-death question for modernity: How can individual freedom be squared with social peace, given the current resurgence of groups who feel alienated from the modern secular state?" - E, D. Hirsch, Jr. Author of Cultural Literacy and The Making of Americans

• 1. The New Challenges to the École Laïque: Integrating Islam2. Faire l'Islam Laïc: The Makings Of French Islam3. The French Republican School: L'école Laïque and its Historical Origins4. Policies Towards Religion in French Public Schools, 1989-20045. Rising Education Inequalities In French Schools6. The Post-2004 Ban and the Integration Of Muslim Students: The Limits of a Narrowly Legalistic Approach7. Cultural and Religious Conflicts in the History of American Schools8. Assimilation and Educational Achievement of Minority Groups in The United States9. Secular Institutions between Policy and Politics