ISBN:
9780415594448
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (241 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Islamophobia in Western Europe and North America
DDC:
305.697
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background, and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the US, have created a new research field investigating the way states and ordinary citizens react to these new phenomena. However, whilst we already know much about how Islam finds its place in Western Europe and North America, and how states react to Muslim migration, we know surprisingly little about the attitudes of ordinary citizens towards Muslim migrants and Islam. Islamophobia has only recently started to be a
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and explaining individual attitudes; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. Islamophobia in the West: An introduction; Part 1: How to measure Islamophobia; 2. Prejudice against Muslims: Associations with personality traits and political attitudes; Part 2: The scope of Islamophobia: public debates, attitudes and reactions; 3. Assessing Islamophobia in Britain: Where do Muslims really stand?; 4. Attitudes toward Muslims in Norway; 5. Islamophobia in Sweden: Politics, representations, attitudes and experiences
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Islamophobia in Spain? Political rhetoric rather than a social factPart 3: How to explain Islamophobia; 7. An ecological analysis of the 2009 Swiss referendum on the building of minarets; 8. Islamophobia and its explanation; 9. The aftermath of 9/11: Tolerance toward Muslims, Islamophobia and value orientations; 10. Political tolerance for Muslim practices: An intergroup perspective; 11. Revisiting Islamophobia in contemporary Britain, 2007-10; Part 4: Are Muslims different from other outgroups? Ethnocentrism and terrorism; 12. Islamophobia and the Band of Others
Description / Table of Contents:
13. Think 'terrorist', think 'Muslim'? Social-psychological mechanisms explaining anti-Islamic prejudiceReferences; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and explaining individual attitudes; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. Islamophobia in the West: An introduction; Part 1: How to measure Islamophobia; 2. Prejudice against Muslims: Associations with personality traits and political attitudes; Part 2: The scope of Islamophobia: public debates, attitudes and reactions; 3. Assessing Islamophobia in Britain: Where do Muslims really stand?; 4. Attitudes toward Muslims in Norway; 5. Islamophobia in Sweden: Politics, representations, attitudes and experiences
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Islamophobia in Spain? Political rhetoric rather than a social factPart 3: How to explain Islamophobia; 7. An ecological analysis of the 2009 Swiss referendum on the building of minarets; 8. Islamophobia and its explanation; 9. The aftermath of 9/11: Tolerance toward Muslims, Islamophobia and value orientations; 10. Political tolerance for Muslim practices: An intergroup perspective; 11. Revisiting Islamophobia in contemporary Britain, 2007-10; Part 4: Are Muslims different from other outgroups? Ethnocentrism and terrorism; 12. Islamophobia and the Band of Others
Description / Table of Contents:
13. Think 'terrorist', think 'Muslim'? Social-psychological mechanisms explaining anti-Islamic prejudiceReferences; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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