ISBN:
978-1-472-41313-0
,
978-1-472-41315-4/ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff
,
978-1-472-41314-7/ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 262 S
Series Statement:
Global Connections
DDC:
306.697094
Keywords:
Europa Frankreich
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Deutschland
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Italien
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Spanien
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Großbritannien
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Muslime
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Öffentlichkeit
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Religion und Gesellschaft
;
Moschee
;
Schleier
;
Scharia
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Meinung, öffentliche
;
Islam
;
Islam und Politik
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Politik
;
Multikulturalität
;
Vielfalt
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Differenzierung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
As the European public sphere becomes increasingly shaped by debates surrounding Islam, this book asks whether it is possible to rethink the public sphere, conceiving of it not as a site of consensus, but as one of antagonism and confrontation. With rich case studies drawn from various sites across Europe, such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe examines a range of public controversies, including mosque construction, ritual slaughter, Sharia councils, burqa bans and love and marriage, to address the question of how cases of 'Islamic difference' might be addressed outside the confines of established normative discourses, which focus on freedom of religion, minority rights or multiculturalism. Acknowledging the creative role of dissent, this book explores the manner in which public controversies shed new light on understandings of aesthetics, animal rights, freedom of speech, the uniformity of secular law and modes of individual emancipation.Developing an innovative conceptual framework and elaborating the notion of controversy as a methodological tool, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe draws our attention to the processes of interaction, confrontation and mutual transformation, thereby opening up a new horizon for rethinking difference and pluralism in Europe. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in religion, integration, cultural difference and the public sphere. Review: 'Nilufer Gole and her colleagues present an incisive intervention in the considerable and growing literature on Muslims in Europe. This volume goes beyond particular instances of the participation of Muslims in public space to exploring the roles and agency of Muslims in reshaping various national public spheres as well as the evolving, and contested, processes of Europeanization. The central and constructive role of public controversy is the lens through which social life and practices are examined and the public sphere is "put to the test of democracy".'Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council, USA and The Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Lebanon
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Controversies and publics -- Introduction : Islamic controversies in the making of European public spheres / Niluf¨er Gol¨e -- How do you become contemporary? : on controversies and common sense / Olivier Remaud -- Secularism and/or cosmopolitanism / Etienne Balibar -- Public islam, piety and secularity -- Self, Islam and secular public spaces / Jocelyne Cesari -- The mosque and the European city / Nebahat Avcolu -- Conflicts over mosques in Europe : between symbolism and territory / Stefano Allievi -- The secular embodiments of face-veil controversies across Europe / Schirin Amir-Moazami -- Islam, art and the european imaginary -- Representing prophets and saints in islam: from classical positions to present-day reactions / Silvia Naef -- Islam in the mirror of our phantasms / John V. Tolan -- The case of the Danish cartoons controversy : the paradox of civility / Sune Lægaard -- Halal arts : censorship or creative ethical practice? / Jeanette S. Jouili -- Halal, sharia and secular law : competing sources of normativity -- The British debate over sharia councils : a French-style controversy? / Jean Philippe Bras -- Ethics and affects in British sharia councils : "a simple way of getting to paradise" / Julie Billaud -- The eclectic usage of halal and conflicts of authority / Rachid Id Yassine -- Animal rights movements and ritual slaughtering : autopsy of a moribund campaign / Florence Bergeaud-Blackler -- Halal circle : intimacy and friendship among the young Muslims of europe / Simone Maddanu -- European genealogies of islam and politics of memory -- Medieval Spain and the integration of memory (on the unfinished project of pre-modernity) / Gil Anidjar -- The contemporary afterlife of Moorish Spain / Charles Hirschkind -- Fugitive or cosmopolitan : the Bosniaks' desire for Europe and trouble with the Ottoman past / Halide Veliolu -- Index.
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