Islam And Political Cultural Europe

Author : W. Cole Durham,Tore Lindholm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317112600

Get Book

Islam and Political-Cultural Europe by W. Cole Durham,Tore Lindholm Pdf

Islam and Political-Cultural Europe identifies the sometimes confusing and often contentious new challenges that arise in daily life and institutions as Islam settles deeper into Europe. Critiquing past and recent assimilation efforts in the fields of education, finance, and security, the contributors offer prospective solutions to diverse contemporary problems. Exploring the interactions of Muslim, Christian and secular cultures in the context of highly pluralized contemporary European societies, this book offers a valuable tool for those within and outside Europe seeking to understand the far-reaching implications of combining cultures, the struggles of the Muslim-Christian-secular transition, and the progress which the future promises.

Author : Frank Peter,Sarah Dornhof,Elena Arigita
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839421765

Get Book

Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe by Frank Peter,Sarah Dornhof,Elena Arigita Pdf

Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social. Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam. From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.

Author : Nezar AlSayyad,Manuel Castells
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739103393

Get Book

Muslim Europe Or Euro-Islam by Nezar AlSayyad,Manuel Castells Pdf

Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim citizens. Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam brings together distinguished scholars from Europe, the United States, and the Middle East in a dynamic discussion about the Muslim populations living in Europe and about Europe's role in framing Islam today. Working at the knotty intersection of cultural identity, the politics of nations and nationalisms, and religious persuasions, this is an invaluable anthology of scholarship that reveals the multifaceted natures of both Europe and Islam.

Author : David M. Kirkham,Tore Lindholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1315589915

Get Book

Islam and Political-cultural Europe by David M. Kirkham,Tore Lindholm Pdf

Author : Ceri Peach,Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349256976

Get Book

Islam in Europe by Ceri Peach,Steven Vertovec Pdf

The twelve million Muslims living in western and eastern (non-CIS) Europe are confronted with the combined, localised effects of xenophobia, nationalism, an historical stigma attached to Islam and a contemporary fear of the 'global Islamic threat'. In resistance, a variety of Muslim groups throughout Europe have developed a 'politics of religion and community' calling for equal treatment of Muslim minorities in the public sphere. This volume provides insights into these groups and activities, their histories, ideologies, organizations and modes of representation.

Author : Marian Burchardt,Ines Michalowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783658025946

Get Book

After Integration by Marian Burchardt,Ines Michalowski Pdf

The integration of Muslims into European societies is often seen as a major challenge that is yet to be confronted. This book, by contrast, starts from the observation that on legal, political and organizational levels integration has already taken place. It showcases the variety of theoretical approaches that scholars have developed to conceptualize Muslim life in Europe, and provides detailed empirical analysis of ten European countries. Demonstrating how Muslim life unfolds between conviviality and contentious politics, the contributors describe demographic developments, analyze legal controversies, and explore the action of government and state, Muslim communities and other civil society actors. Driving forces behind the integration of Islam are discussed in detail and compared across countries.

Author : Shireen Hunter
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015055460383

Get Book

Islam, Europe's Second Religion by Shireen Hunter Pdf

Islam is slowly becoming part of Europe's social, cultural, and, to some degree, political landscape. This work considers the best way of accommodating Islam in Europe and establishing cooperative relations between Muslims and the followers of other religious or secular value systems.

Author : Jytte Klausen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191516122

Get Book

The Islamic Challenge by Jytte Klausen Pdf

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order to say who they are not. They are not fundamentalists, not terrorists, and most do not support the introduction of Islamic religious law in Europe - especially not its application to Christians. This book is about who these people are, and what they want. This book is based on three hundred interviews with European Muslim leaders from six European countries: Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The question of Islam in Europe is not a matter of global war and peace but raises difficult questions about the positions of Christianity and Islam in public life, and about European identities. Europe's Muslim political leaders are not aiming to overthrow liberal democracy and to replace secular law with Islamic religious law. Those are the positions of a minority. There is not one Muslim position on how Islam should develop in Europe but many views, and most Muslims are rather looking for ways to build institutions that will allow European Muslims to practice their religion in a way that is compatible with social integration.

Author : Mohammed Hashas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351604000

Get Book

The Idea of European Islam by Mohammed Hashas Pdf

Suspicions about the integration of Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the rise, and dramatically so since 9/11. One reason lies in the visibility of anti-Western Islamic discourses of salafi origin, which have monopolized the debate on the "true" Islam, not only among Muslims but also in the eyes of the general population across Europe; these discourses combined with Islamophobic discourses reinforce the so-called incompatibility between the West and Islam. This book breaks away from this clash between Islam and the West, by arguing that European Islam is possible. It analyzes the contribution that European Islam has made to the formation of an innovative Islamic theology that is deeply ethicist and modern, and it clarifies how this constructed European Islamic theology is able to contribute to the various debates that are related to secular-liberal democracies of Western Europe. Part I introduces four major projects that defend the idea of European Islam from different disciplines and perspectives: politics, political theology, jurisprudence and philosophy. Part II uses the frameworks from three major philosophers and scholars to approach the idea of European Islam in the context of secular-liberal societies: British scholar George Hourani, Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane and the American philosopher John Rawls. The book shows that the ongoing efforts of European Muslim thinkers to revisit the concept of citizenship and political community can be seen as a new kind of political theology, in opposition to radical forms of Islamic thinking in some Muslim-majority countries. Opening a new path for examining Islamic thought "in and of" Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Islamic Studies, Islam in the West and Political Theology.

Author : Tariq Modood,Anna Triandafyllidou,Ricard Zapata-Barrero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134255603

Get Book

Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship by Tariq Modood,Anna Triandafyllidou,Ricard Zapata-Barrero Pdf

This informative collection investigates the European dimension of multiculturalism and immigration. It argues that political theory discourse of multiculturalism and resulting EU policies assume an interpretation of liberalism developed chiefly from the American experience, and that this issue must be addressed as the European experience is entirely different (with the main influx being non-white, ethnic and religious groups challenging liberalism and existing notions of citizenship). Presenting a fresh and unique perspective of multiculturalism and citizenship in Western Europe today, this book offers a comparative series of national case studies by a diverse range of leading scholars that together provide a theoretical framework for the volume as a whole. The contributors investigate the extent to which we can talk about a common Europe-wide multiculturalism debate, or whether here too there is a Europe of two (or more) gears, in which some countries address multicultural claims swiftly whilst others lag behind, busy with more basic issues of immigrant acceptance and integration. Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this text is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, researchers and policy makers interested in immigration, multiculturalism, European integration, Islamic studies and ethnicities.

Author : Timothy A. Byrnes,Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521859263

Get Book

Religion in an Expanding Europe by Timothy A. Byrnes,Peter J. Katzenstein Pdf

With political controversies raging over issues such as the wearing of headscarves in schools and the mention of Christianity in the European Constitution, religious issues are of growing importance in European politics. In this volume, Byrnes and Katzenstein analyze the effect that enlargement to countries with different and stronger religious traditions may have on the EU as a whole, and in particular on its homogeneity and assumed secular nature. Looking through the lens of the transnational religious communities of Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Islam, they argue that religious factors are stumbling blocks rather than stepping stones toward the further integration of Europe. All three religious traditions are advancing notions of European identity and European union that differ substantially from how the European integration process is generally understood by political leaders and scholars. This volume makes an important addition to the fields of European politics, political sociology, and the sociology of religion.

Author : Jan Rath,Rinus Penninx,Kees Groenendijk,Astrid Meyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004397859

Get Book

Western Europe and its Islam by Jan Rath,Rinus Penninx,Kees Groenendijk,Astrid Meyer Pdf

This book, based on interdisciplinary research, examines the establishment of Muslim institutions in Western Europe, and particularly focuses on the role played by agents from the host society and the political and ideological positions adopted by them in reaction to claims from Muslims.

Author : Tariq Ramadan
Publisher : Kube Publishing Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780860375579

Get Book

To Be a European Muslim by Tariq Ramadan Pdf

Tariq Ramadan shows that it is possible to live as a practising Muslim in multi-faith, pluralistic European nation states.

Author : Almut H[Ux945f]fert,Armando Salvatore
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9052019355

Get Book

Between Europe and Islam by Almut H[Ux945f]fert,Armando Salvatore Pdf

In the last two decades of the 20th century, theorising on modernity has entered a new stage. The former dichotomy between an active West exporting its successful model of modernity on a global scale and passive non-Westerners gratefully implementing this model in their own societies has been challenged by critical anthropology and postcolonial studies, and further elaborated upon within social theory. This volume focuses on Europe and the Islamic world as two historically constructed geo-civilisational domains, and shows that modernity was not achieved in splendid isolation in Europe, but in the tensions and conflicts within the «transcultural space» between Europe and Islam. The impact of Islam as a complex civilising tradition on the making of Europe, and vice versa, impinged on the building of political, religious and scientific institutions and discourses. These sustained a continuous process of drawing, adjusting and transgressing symbolic and geo-political boundaries between the two civilisational realms, from medieval rivalries to present-day migration-related conflicts. This volume assembles seven contributions by historians and sociologists covering the whole of the modern era and focusing on the notion of a transcultural space and the discussion of revised concepts concerning the genesis and shape of modernity. In so doing, they try to escape both the apories of cultural relativism and the militancy of the «clash of civilizations».

Author : Luca Mavelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136448430

Get Book

Europe's Encounter with Islam by Luca Mavelli Pdf

In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as ‘problematic’. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called ‘Danish cartoons’, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on Muslims’ capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and pluralistic rules of European secularity. Luca Mavelli argues that this perspective has prevented an in-depth reflection on the limits of Europe’s secular tradition and its role in Europe’s conflictual encounter with Islam. Through an original reading of Michel Foucault’s spiritual notion of knowledge and an engagement with key thinkers, from Thomas Aquinas to Jurgën Habermas, Mavelli articulates a contending genealogy of European secularity. While not denying the latter’s achievements in terms of pluralism and autonomy, he suggests that Europe’s secular tradition has also contributed to forms of isolation, which translate into Europe’s incapacity to perceive its encounter with Islam as an opportunity rather than a threat. Drawing on this theoretical perspective, Mavelli offers a contending account of some of the most important recent controversies surrounding Islam in Europe and investigates the ‘postsecular’ as a normative model to engage with the tensions at the heart of European secularity. Finally, he advances the possibility of a Europe willing to reconsider its established secular narratives which may identify in the encounter with Islam an opportunity to flourish and cultivate its democratic qualities and postnational commitments. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion and international relations, social and political theory, and Islam in Europe.