hey guys
we are about to present our project in class in 30 minutes. we still have not received the url from you. what should we do? let us know.

I wrote something and qin will post the url this evening.ciao

Religion on campus

Why this subject?

We choose to talk about religion on campus otherwise how we see religion (all the religions) and how the believers live their religion life on their student life or adolescent life. The most important thing in this project is to compare between the French situation and the American one. We choose this subject because of a lot of reasons, the main one is that we hear more and more people talk about religion and about “laicite” in our country. We observe that France and the USA interpret this “laicite” differently.

Observations:

In France, there’s nearly no place for the religion in the student life (in the campus, at the university…) except sometimes when the nearest church glide a prospectus under the student’s door in the campus like the last desperation’s effort to stay alive. For the people who believe, they must do an effort to go to their church if there’s a church not so far.

In the USA, the situation is very different. As Asmaa and Kristen said, religion is omnipresent in their life of student in the university even if they don’t want it. There is association of believers and churches in the campus but the education is lay.

Generally in the USA, there is more liberty everywhere and especially in the practice of religion. The difference is that the French wonder WHY? Whereas the American wonder WHY NOT? For the French, the start is the restriction and gives liberty little by little .For the American, they start with the total liberty and manage after that.

Explications:

To talk about religion in this two country, we must present the situation of the religion in this country. In France:

-60 millions habitants

	1994	2007
Catholics	67%	51%
Protestants	3%	3%
Jews	1%	1%
Muslims	2%	4%
Without religion	23%	31%

And in the USA:

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Protestants	52,0%
Catholics	24,5%
Jews	1,3%
Muslims	0,5%
Without religion	14,1%
Secular	0,4%
Others	7,2%

website url

hey guys-

hope everythings going well for you guys! we just wanted to remind you that we need the website up my midnight tonight. go ahead and just post the url or webaddress here or you can email us so we can incorporate it into our project. thanks so much!

-asmaa & kristin

nous nous

hey guys-

we need you to go ahead and start asking as many friends of yours as possible the following survey questions:

(1) To what extent does religion (such as churches, temples, mosques) have a presence on
the French university and community?
(2) Do French people think it’s a violation of sorts to even have religion present in a university setting and/or college community (which is meant to be secular)?
(3) What is the dominant religion in France and do students do anything on campus that involves religion?
(4) In France, is church and state actually separate or is it more or less a conglomeration like it is in America?

Please, try to ask as many people as possible as we need a lot of responses. Thanks guys. We would love it if you guys could have this to us by Tuesday April 10th.

MERCI BEAUCOUP!!!

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John Mayer

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