Politics, religion and gender : : framing and regulating the veil / / edited by Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in religion and politics
• TeilnehmendeR: Rosenberger, Sieglinde, 1957-; Sauer, Birgit.
• 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.

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

Table of Contents

Front Cover; Politics, Religion and Gender; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Framing and regulating the veil: an introduction: Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer; Part I: Frames and framing; 1. Veiled debates: gender and gender equality in European national narratives: Rikke Andreassen and Doutje Lettinga; 2. Thinking through secularism: debates on the Muslim veil in Europe: Eirini Avramopoulou, Gül Çorbacıoğlu and Maria Eleonora Sanna

3. Negotiating belonging: or how a differentiated citizenship is legitimized in European headscarf debates: Nora Gresch, Petra Rostock and Sevgi Kılıç4. Discursive Europeanization? Negotiating Europe in headscarf debates: İlker Ataç, Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer; Part II: Regulations and actors; 5. Legal regulations: responses to the Muslim headscarf in Europe: Sabine Berghahn; 6. Regulating religious symbols in public schools: the legal status of the Islamic headscarf in Bulgaria: Kristen Ghodsee

7. The limits of populism: accommodative headscarf policies in Austria, Denmark, and the Netherlands: Leila Hadj-Abdou,Sieglinde Rosenberger, Sawitri Saharso and Birte Siim8. In the name of laïcité and neutrality: prohibitive regulations of the veil in France, Germany, and Turkey: Sabine Berghahn, Gül Çorbacıoğlu, Petra Rostock and Maria Eleonora Sanna; 9. Non-regulation: opportunity for freedom of religion or sedimentation of existing power structures?: Rikke Andreassen, Eirini Avramopoulou, Nora Gresch, Sevgi Kılıç and Birgit Sauer

10. Muslim women's participation in the veil controversy: Austria and the UK compared: Leila Hadj-Abdou and Linda WoodheadConclusion: the veil as a case of value diversity and European values: Sawitri Saharso; Appendix 1: list of cited documents; Appendix 2: list of major frames and subframes of the VEIL project's frame analysis; Index