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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451706403321

Titolo

Islamophobia in the West : measuring and explaining individual attitudes / / edited by Marc Helbling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-46293-1

9786613462930

1-136-90080-2

0-203-84173-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in sociology

Altri autori (Persone)

HelblingMarc

Disciplina

305.6/97

Soggetti

Islam in mass media

Islam - Public opinion

Islamophobia - Europe

Muslims - Public opinion

Electronic books.

Europe Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

13. Think 'terrorist', think 'Muslim'? Social-psychological mechanisms explaining anti-Islamic prejudiceReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 b