Who is Charlie? - Xenophobia and the New Middle Class

* 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 * François 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 * Mélenchon 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