Missmatch and meta-discrimination between religion and politics A provocative understanding of religion as performativity Instead of personal (cultural) integrity

Christians, Louis-Léon
(2023) ROUNDTABLE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS CONCERNING DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE IN EUROPE (org. Stijn Smet) — Location: Hasselt University (9.May.2023)

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Why would it be sufficient to add political signs to religious signs prohibitions to rule out a claim of indirect discrimina-on? Is politics a kind of trump card? This connection between religion and politics is never discussed. Yet this analogy is not neutral. Firstly, it is not found in Directive 2000/78. Secondly, it implies a confusion between religion and politics which is either a reminiscence of the past linked to the political 19th century polarization, or it is the result of a methodological atheism which reduces the religious to a mere political phenomena. But even in a methodological atheism, and even if everything is political, "everything is culture" as well. Why not consider this option ? Banning religious signs but not cultural signs would then be discriminatory.The paper suggest the confusion between politics and religious phenomena is due to a secular overdetermination of the performative nature of religious normativity.
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Christians, L.-L. (2023). Missmatch and meta-discrimination between religion and politics A provocative understanding of religion as performativity Instead of personal (cultural) integrity. ROUNDTABLE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS CONCERNING DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE IN EUROPE (org. Stijn Smet), Hasselt University. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/105904