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Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USA : A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Multidisciplinary Research on Islamic Organizations: Heterogeneous Organizational Forms, Strategies, and Practices; Part I: Different Forms of Organizations; 2 Islamic Organizations in Poland: From Monopoly to Pluralism; 3 Civil Liberties or Civil Rights? Muslim American Advocacy Organizations; 4 Divided or Conquered: The Challenges of Organizational Life for Muslims in the UK and Spain; Part II: Different Response Strategies to Organizational Environments

5 The Impact of Public Debates on Muslim Representatives in Western Europe: The Agenda Setting Function of Mass Media6 Negotiating the Visibility of Islam in Switzerland: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Conflicts Involved with Building Projects for Mosques; 7 Islamic Organizations in the Baltic States: Commonalities and Differences; 8 Not Quite In, Not Quite Out: Islamic Organizations in France and Germany and Their Ties to Their States of Origin

9 Neither Omnipotent nor a Paper Tiger: The Federation of the Alevi Communities in Germany and the Dynamics of Its Multidimensional Area of ActivityPart III: Different Practices within the Organizations; 10 Imams in Flanders, Belgium: Toward the First Flemish Imams; 11 Religious Practices of DITIB Mosque Community Members: Perspectives from Germany; 12 Identities, Islamophobia, and the State: Diverse Perspectives and Experiences of Muslim Civic Actors from Islamic Organizations in the UK; 13 The Gülen Movement in Western Europe and the USA

14 Conclusion: Similarities and Differences of Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USAIndex of Selected Authors; Subject Index

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<p >This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States. It focuses on the reactions of organized Muslims at local, national, and transnational levels to the on-going debates on their integration into society and the structures of state-church relations. <p > <p >