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Record Nr.

UNISA996308811503316

Autore

Jonker Gerdien

Titolo

Politics of visibility : young Muslims in European public spaces / / Gerdien Jonker, Valerie Amiraux (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2006

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

3-8394-0506-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226)

Collana

Globaler lokaler Islam

Classificazione

MS 6575

Disciplina

305.6/97094

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Europe

Muslims - Cultural assimilation - Europe

Muslims - Political activity - Europe

Muslims - Socialization - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  TABLE OF CONTENTS    5  Acknowledgements    7  Introduction: Talking about Visibility - Actors, Politics, Forms of Engagement    9  Speaking as a Muslim: Avoiding Religion in French Public Space    21  "We should be walking Qurans": The Making of an Islamic Political Subject    53  The Invention of Citizenship among Young Muslims in Italy    79  From Migrant to Citizen: The Role of the Islamic University of Rotterdam in the Formulation of Dutch Citizenship    103  Islamist or Pietist? Muslim Responses to the German Security Framework    123  Secular versus Islamist: The Headscarf Debate in Germany    151  From Seclusion to Inclusion: British 'Ulama and the Politics of Social Visibility    169  Alienation and Radicalization: Young Muslims in Germany    191  Abbreviations    213  Notes on the Authors    214  Index    216  Backmatter    224

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes into view a large variety of Muslim actors who, in recent years, made their entry into the European public sphere. Without excluding the phenomenon of terrorists, it maps the whole field of Muslim visibility. The nine contributions present unpublished ethnographic materials that have been collected between 2003 and



2005. They track down the available space that is open to Muslims in EU member states claiming a visibility of their own. The volume collects male and female, secular and religious, radical and pietistic voices of sometimes very young people. They all speak about »being a Muslim in Europe« and the meaning of »real Islam«.