The case of Eastern Christians and the French political imaginary, in Jayeel Cornelio, François Gauthier, Tuomas Martikainen, Linda Woodhead (Eds.) (2020), Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society

Author: Alexis Artaud de la Ferrière

Publisher/Publication: Routledge

DOI/ISBN: 9781315646435

The writer studies the relationship between France and Christian minorities in the Middle East and how that relationship has influenced France’s foreign policy in that region. Through this case study, he argues for the relevance of religion as an explanatory variable on the basis that it continues to play a significant role in processes of national identification and in the foreign policy orientations of formally secular states.