Politics, religion and gender : : framing and regulating the veil / / edited by Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer.
Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defen...
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| Superior document: | Routledge studies in religion and politics |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Routledge,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1 ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in religion and politics
Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalises and causes such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, mi |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-232) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1136589317 1136589325 0203181050 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer. |