ISBN:
9780230238749
,
1283532379
,
9781283532372
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (301 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Weedon, Chris Islam in the West: Key Issues in Multiculturalism 2014
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Islam in the West : Key Issues in Multiculturalism
DDC:
305.6/97091821
Keywords:
Muslims
;
Islam -- Relations
;
Islamic sociology
;
Multiculturalism
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book contributes to understanding of the contemporary relationship between Muslims and the Western societies in which they live, focusing particularly on the UK. Chapters reflect on the nature of multiculturalism, as well as a wide range of specific aspects of daily life, including religious dialogue, gender, freedom of speech and politics.
Abstract:
This book contributes to understanding of the contemporary relationship between Muslims and the Western societies in which they live, focusing particularly on the UK. Chapters reflect on the nature of multiculturalism, as well as a wide range of specific aspects of daily life, including religious dialogue, gender, freedom of speech and politics
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword: A Personal Reflection; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Islamic Terms; 1 Introduction: 'Islam', 'the West' and 'Multiculturalism'; 2 Multiculturalism in the UK: A Contested Discourse; 3 Multiculturalism: Commonality, Diversity and Psychological Integration; 4 Freedom of Expression, Multiculturalism and the 'Danish Cartoons'; 5 Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg Lecture: A Flashpoint in Christian-Muslim Relations; 6 Secularism and the Accommodation of Religious Law: Reflections on Rowan Williams' Lecture
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Role of Muslim Women in Britain in Relation to the Government's 'Prevent Agenda'8 Veiled Interventions in Pure Space: Honour, Shame and Embodied Struggles among Muslims in Britain and France; 9 Sexuality Politics in Islam; 10 Deconstructing the Debate around Sport and the 'Question' of 'Muslim Minorities' in the West; 11 Islam, Responsibility and Business; 12 Towards a Shared Future? Opportunity and Denial in Bradford's Experience of Ethnic and Religious Change
Description / Table of Contents:
13 From Madrassa to Mainstream - The Role of the Madrassa in Shaping the Core Islamic Values and Practice among Young British Muslims14 The Construction of Criminality and Disorder among British Muslim Young People; 15 Islamism and Terror: A Western Way of Doing Politics; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
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,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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