%0 Journal Article
%T From religious to secular place
%A Anna Lea Berg
%J Social Compass
%@ 1461-7404
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0037768618813774
%X The literature on religious place-making has largely prioritized an emic perspective of religious actors often reducing the secular aspect of such place-making to a mere ¡®emptying out¡¯ of religion from public space. Based on ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with political and religious representatives in Montreuil, one of the flagship towns of the ¡®red belt¡¯ of municipalities around Paris, this article looks at secular aspects of religious place construction. The discussion focusses on two practices of secular place-making: defining of religion ¡®worthy¡¯ of place and shifting the boundary between public and private space. Comparing the municipality¡¯s interactions with Muslim groups on the one hand, and evangelical churches on the other, I show that politics and sensibilities of the secular towards the religious vary for different religious groups over time. Locality can thus be understood as dynamic mode of secularism, enabling a constant placing and re-placing of religion
%K evangelical churches
%K Islam
%K la£¿cit¨¦
%K religious place-making
%K places of worship
%K secular place-making
%K ¨¦glises ¨¦vang¨¦listes
%K fabrique de l¡¯espace religieux et s¨¦culier
%K Islam
%K la£¿cit¨¦
%K lieux de culte
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0037768618813774