Politics of visibility : : young Muslims in European public spaces / / Gerdien Jonker, Valerie Amiraux (editors).

This book takes into view a large variety of Muslim actors who, in recent years, made their entry into the European public sphere. Without excluding the phenomenon of terrorists, it maps the whole field of Muslim visibility. The nine contributions present unpublished ethnographic materials that have...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Globaler Lokaler Islam
Physical Description:1 online resource (226)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction: Talking about Visibility - Actors, Politics, Forms of Engagement 9 Speaking as a Muslim: Avoiding Religion in French Public Space 21 "We should be walking Qurans": The Making of an Islamic Political Subject 53 The Invention of Citizenship among Young Muslims in Italy 79 From Migrant to Citizen: The Role of the Islamic University of Rotterdam in the Formulation of Dutch Citizenship 103 Islamist or Pietist? Muslim Responses to the German Security Framework 123 Secular versus Islamist: The Headscarf Debate in Germany 151 From Seclusion to Inclusion: British 'Ulama and the Politics of Social Visibility 169 Alienation and Radicalization: Young Muslims in Germany 191 Abbreviations 213 Notes on the Authors 214 Index 216 Backmatter 224