Debating Islam
Negotiating Religion, Europe, and the Self
Conspicuously, Islam has become a key concern in most European societies with respect to issues of immigration, integration, identity, values and inland security. As the mere presence of Muslim minorities fails to explain these debates convincingly, new questions need to be asked: How did »Islam« become a topic? Who takes part in the debates? How do these debates influence both individual as well as collective »self-images« and »image of others«?
Introducing Switzerland as an under-researched object of study to the academic discourse on Islam in Europe, this volume offers a fresh perspective on the objective by putting recent case studies from diverse national contexts into comparative perspective.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Foreword
Seiten 9 - 10 -
Introduction
Seiten 11 - 36 -
PART I Rules and roles
Rules and roles
Seiten 39 - 42 -
Racial grammar and the green menace
Seiten 43 - 62 -
The ambiguity of law and Muslim debates about the contextualisation of Islam in France
Seiten 63 - 80 -
'Muslim women' marking debates on Islam
Seiten 81 - 98 -
Formatting Islam versus mobilising Islam in prison: Evidence from the Swiss case
Seiten 99 - 118 -
The politics of Sikh Islamophobia
Seiten 119 - 134 -
PART II The one facing the many
The one facing the many
Seiten 137 - 140 -
Celtic ancestors and Muhammad's legacy: Types of narratives in a convert's construction of religiosity
Seiten 141 - 164 -
The imagining of Muslim converts in Britain by themselves and others
Seiten 165 - 180 -
"I have become a stranger in my homeland": An analysis of the public performance of converts to Islam in Switzerland
Seiten 181 - 202 -
Islamic fields and Muslim techniques of the self in a German context
Seiten 203 - 220 -
Part III The many facing the 'other' (within)
The many facing the 'other' (within)
Seiten 223 - 226 -
Institutionalised Austrian Islam: One institution representing the many
Seiten 227 - 242 -
'We are in this together': How the cartoon crisis changed relations between the Danish state and Muslim Danes
Seiten 243 - 262 -
Basel's 'swimming refuseniks': A systemic study on how politics observe Muslim claims to diversity in state schools
Seiten 263 - 284 -
'Against Islam, but not against Muslims': Actors and attitudes in the Swiss minaret vote
Seiten 285 - 312 -
Protecting democracy, misrecognising Muslims? An assessment of Swiss integration policy
Seiten 313 - 330 -
EPILOGUE
On relating religion to society and society to religion
Seiten 333 - 356 -
Index
Seiten 357 - 368 -
Contributors
Seiten 369 - 372
7 November 2013, 372 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2249-6
File size: 1.74 MB
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