New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism / by Erich Kolig.

• Superior document: Muslim minorities, v. 9
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Kolig, Erich.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Muslim minorities ; v. 9.
• Physical Description: vi, 272 p.

Table of Contents

• Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand
• Field research
• Community, identity, diversity
• The beginnings
• Muslim representation
• Organisational functions and aims
• Outreach programmes
• The myth of Muslim unity
• Living among infidels
• Orientalism and Islamophobia
• Converts
• Students
• The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere
• The New Zealand state and multiculturalism
• Secularisation and the right to religion
• Legal instruments
• 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity
• Education and policy framework
• Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims
• The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism
• Rivals for custodianship of public morality
• Integration and conflict discourses
• 'When in Rome do as the Romans do'
• The necessity of minority integration
• Conflict discourses
• Blasphemous libel and Islam
• Danish cartoons rock the world
• The Pope's gaffe
• Gender issues : women are equal but different
• Of gender separation and inequality
• Concepts of decency and modesty
• The Burqa case
• Hijab versus Burqa
• Whose authority?
• The Burqa's challenge to multiculturalism
• Globalisation, political Islam and the rise of fundamentalism
• Is extremism rising in New Zealand?
• 'Fundamentalists' and 'moderates' fighting over the Christchurch Mosque and Halal meat
• Muslim firebrand preachers
• Re-Islamisation and fundamentalisation in the world
• Fundamentalism is not all the same
• The radical concept of Jihad
• The spectre of terrorism
• The Zaoui case
• Epilogue: Muslims in the world.