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Frédéric Strack
Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for International Studies (CERI)
International Observatory of Religions
Duration: from 01 January 2026 to 31 December 2028
frederic.strack@sciencespo.frPhone: +14385437320
Mobile: +33624406574
Research Interest(s): Religious Minorities; Social Regulation; Public Regulation; Laïcité; Qualitative Methods
Discipline(s): Political Science
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations; Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories; Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination
Geographical Area(s): North America, Western Europe
Biography
Frédéric Strack holds a PhD in political science (Paris-Panthéon-Assas University) and is an associate doctor at GSRL and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sherbrooke (Canada) within the Law and Religion Chair. His PhD dissertation analyzes the relationship between religious fundamentalism and liberal society based on the case of Orthodox Judaism in France since the 1980s.
His current research focuses on the public regulation of religious minorities. He is the author of Les juifs orthodoxes en France (1980-2023). Une minorité religieuse face à l’État laïque (Orthodox Jews in France (1980-2023). A religious minority facing the secular state) (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2025).
Current Research
Awareness of the rights of religious minorities in France: Sikhs, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses
publications
Les juifs orthodoxes en France (1980-2020). Une minorité religieuse face à l’Etat laïque. Coll. Sciences des Religions, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025.
“Restrictive France, permissive Europe? Elements to nuance the specificity of the French public governance of religions”, International Problems, 2025, 77(4), 617-642.
« Les jeunes, cœurs de cible et promoteurs d’une orthodoxie juive globalisée », Social Compass : International Review of Sociology of Religion, 2023, 71(1), 101-118.
« Enterrer ses morts selon la loi juive en France : les défis contemporains », Archives juives. Revue des études juives, 2024, 57(1), 126-143.
« L’enclave ou le ghetto : rapport à l’hors-groupe et socialisation politique chez les juif.ve.s orthodoxes », Revue Française de Science Politique, 2024, 73(4-5), 619-639.
« Laïcité, Public Governance of Religion, and the Orthodox Jews in France », dans Vekovic, M., Jevtic, M. (dir.), Religion and Politics in Europe, the USA and Asia: New Trends and Challenges, Londres - New York, Routledge, 2024.