Legal Integration of Islam : : A Transatlantic Comparison / / Christian Joppke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
• VerfasserIn: Joppke, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1 Introduction --; WESTERN EUROPE --; 2 Limits of Excluding --; 3 Limits of Including --; NORTH AMERICA --; 4 "Reasonable Accommodation" and the Limits of Multiculturalism in Canada --; 5 The Dog That Didn't Bark --; 6 Conclusion --; Notes --; Court Cases --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674074910; 9783110317350; 9783110317121; 9783110317114; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674074910
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christian Joppke.

The status of Islam in Western societies remains deeply contentious. Countering strident claims on both the right and left, Legal Integration of Islam offers an empirically informed analysis of how four liberal democracies-France, Germany, Canada, and the United States-have responded to the challenge of integrating Islam and Muslim populations. Demonstrating the centrality of the legal system to this process, Christian Joppke and John Torpey reject the widely held notion that Europe is incapable of accommodating Islam and argue that institutional barriers to Muslim integration are no greater on one side of the Atlantic than the other. While Muslims have achieved a substantial degree of equality working through the courts, political dynamics increasingly push back against these gains, particularly in Europe. From a classical liberal viewpoint, religion can either be driven out of public space, as in France, or included without sectarian preference, as in Germany. But both policies come at a price-religious liberty in France and full equality in Germany. Often seen as the flagship of multiculturalism, Canada has found itself responding to nativist and liberal pressures as Muslims become more assertive. And although there have been outbursts of anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States, the legal and political recognition of Islam is well established and largely uncontested. Legal Integration of Islam brings to light the successes and the shortcomings of integrating Islam through law without denying the challenges that this religion presents for liberal societies.