Ferrara on France, Education, & Religion: Reuters

Marketing Communication assistant professor and sociocultural anthropologist Carol Ferrara spoke to Reuters about France’s actions toward its Muslim schools, the largest of which lost funding from the country in late 2023 for failing to adhere to secular requirements that all schools must follow.

“It’s really a double standard of who has to conform to secular Republican values in a certain way, and who doesn’t,” said American anthropologist Carol Ferrara, who studies French faith schools and says Catholic and Jewish schools are treated more leniently.

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