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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%