Jean-Louis Schlegel
is an editor and member of the executive committee of the French journal Esprit and a shrewd observer of religion. He is also editor of La loi de Dieu contre la liberté des hommes, Seuil, 2003, and has translated and written numerous other works on religion.
Eurozine Articles
Nicolas Sarkozy, the laïcité and the religions
Nicolas Sarkozy's recent comments on religion have alarmed many. Yet, as Jean-Louis Schlegel demonstrates, they bear a continuity with his policy while still minister of the interior to establish an official Muslim representative body. [more]
The legislation of 1905
Should France's laws from 1905 regulating laïcité be reformed after a century of changes in the religious composition of French society? [more]




