This article explores the transformation of the French legal response to sectarian deviation (dérives sectaires), particularly through Law No. 2024-420. It argues that the law marks a shift from punishing concrete harm to targeting the process of psychological subjugation itself. This shift reveals a deeper reconfiguration of secularism (laïcité) as a mechanism of surveillance and control over belief.
Sectarian drifts between law and secularism: An anatomy of the phenomenon in the French legal system / Hussen, B.. - In: QUADERNI DI DIRITTO E POLITICA ECCLESIASTICA. - ISSN 1122-0392. - 33:2(2025), pp. 559-586. [10.1440/118322]
Sectarian drifts between law and secularism: An anatomy of the phenomenon in the French legal system
Basira Hussen
2025
Abstract
This article explores the transformation of the French legal response to sectarian deviation (dérives sectaires), particularly through Law No. 2024-420. It argues that the law marks a shift from punishing concrete harm to targeting the process of psychological subjugation itself. This shift reveals a deeper reconfiguration of secularism (laïcité) as a mechanism of surveillance and control over belief.
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