Debating Islam : : Negotiating Religion, Europe, and the Self / / ed. by Andreas Tunger-Zanetti, Susanne Leuenberger, Samuel M. Behloul.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barras, Amélie,; Behloul, Samuel M.,; Bouzar, Petra Bleisch,; Gianni, Matteo,; Hafez, Farid,; Kühle, Lene,; Leuenberger, Susanne,; Moosavi, Leon,; Peter, Frank,; Purdie, Mallory Schneuwly,; Rohrer, Marius,; Schulze, Reinhard,; Sian, Katy P.,; Thielmann, Jörn,; Tunger-Zanetti, Andreas,; Tyrer, David Llewelyn,
• HerausgeberIn: Behloul, Samuel M.,; Leuenberger, Susanne,; Tunger-Zanetti, Andreas,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Globaler lokaler Islam
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)

Conspicuously, Islam has become a key concern in most European societies with respect to issues of immigration, integration, identity, values and inland security. As the mere presence of Muslim minorities fails to explain these debates convincingly, new questions need to be asked: How did »Islam« become a topic? Who takes part in the debates? How do these debates influence both individual as well as collective »self-images« and »image of others«?Introducing Switzerland as an under-researched object of study to the academic discourse on Islam in Europe, this volume offers a fresh perspective on the objective by putting recent case studies from diverse national contexts into comparative perspective.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I Rules and roles -- Rules and roles -- Racial grammar and the green menace -- The ambiguity of law and Muslim debates about the contextualisation of Islam in France -- ‘Muslim women’ marking debates on Islam -- Formatting Islam versus mobilising Islam in prison: Evidence from the Swiss case -- The politics of Sikh Islamophobia -- PART II The one facing the many -- The one facing the many -- Celtic ancestors and Muhammad’s legacy: Types of narratives in a convert’s construction of religiosity -- The imagining of Muslim converts in Britain by themselves and others -- “I have become a stranger in my homeland”: An analysis of the public performance of converts to Islam in Switzerland -- Islamic fields and Muslim techniques of the self in a German context -- Part III The many facing the ‘other’ (within) -- The many facing the ‘other’ (within) -- Institutionalised Austrian Islam: One institution representing the many -- ‘We are in this together’: How the cartoon crisis changed relations between the Danish state and Muslim Danes -- Basel’s ‘swimming refuseniks’: A systemic study on how politics observe Muslim claims to diversity in state schools -- ‘Against Islam, but not against Muslims’: Actors and attitudes in the Swiss minaret vote -- Protecting democracy, misrecognising Muslims? An assessment of Swiss integration policy -- EPILOGUE -- On relating religion to society and society to religion -- Index -- Contributors