Islam and Muslims in Germany / / edited by Ala Al-Hamarneh and Jorn Thielmann.

In the European discourse of post 9/11 reality, concepts such as “Multiculturalism”, “Integration” and “European Islam” are becoming more and more topical. The empirically- based contributions in this volume aim to reflect the variety of current Muslim social practices and life-worlds in Germany. Th...

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Superior document:Muslim minorities ; v. 7
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Muslim minorities ; v. 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (612 p.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Euro-Islam : some empirical evidences / Faruk Sen
  • Islamic norms in Germany and Europe / Mathias Rohe
  • Religiousness among young Muslims in Germany / Kea Eilers, Clara Seitz, Konrad Hirschler
  • Governmentality, pastoral care and integration / Levent Tezcan
  • Prayer leader, counselor, teacher, social worker, and public relations officer : on the roles and functions of Imams in Germany / Melanie Kamp
  • Christian-Muslim encounter : recent issues and perspectives / Friedmann Eissler
  • The bellicose birth of Euro-Islam in Berlin / Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
  • Muslims' collective self-description as reflected in the institutional recognition of Islam : the Islamic Charta of the central council of Muslims in Germany and case law in German courts
  • Nikola Tietze
  • Islamic instruction in German public schools : the case of North-Rhine-Westphalia / Margrete Svik
  • Difficult identifications : the debate on Alevism and Islam in Germany / Martin Sokefeld
  • Philosophers, freedom fighters, pantomimes : South Asian Muslims in Germany / Claudia Preckel
  • Turkish-German filmaking : from phobic liminality to transgressive glocality / Viola Shafik
  • A literary dialogue of cultures : Arab authors in Germany / Yafa Shanneik
  • The entertainment of a parallel society? : Turkish popular music in Germany / Maria Wurm
  • "I can watch both sides" : media use among young Arabs in Germany / Judith Pies
  • Islam in German media / Sabine Schiffer
  • The Turkish press in Germany : a public in-between two publics? / Christoph Schumann
  • Re-fashioning the self through religious knowledge : how Muslim women become pious in the German diaspora / Jeanette S. Jouili
  • Gender in transition : the connectedness of gender and ethnicity in biographies of female entrepreneurs of Turkish background / Verena Schreiber
  • Transculturality as practice : Turkish entrepreneurs in Germany / Robert Putz
  • The construction of "Turks in Germany'" as a target group of marketing / Matthias Kulinna
  • Islamic financing transactions in European courts / Kilian Balz.