ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how the French educational system has evolved in relation to faith schooling in recent years. It shows that from a historically-grounded, ‘culturally’ specific situation of antagonism, the secular state sector and the religious private sector have developedor more precisely have been politically, legally and socially encouraged to develop-forms of complementarities which have led to an unprecedented level of mutual tolerance. Whether this may be deemed to be a consensual situation remains a point of debate.
