New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism /

New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism / / Erich Kolig.

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Issues of integration, multiculturalism and policies of ethnic and religious minority rights have gained greatly in significance in recent years, especially in relation to Muslims. This book deals with the Muslim minority in New Zealand, with special emphasis on policy aspects relevant to the integr...

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Superior document:Muslim minorities, v. 9
:
Kolig, Erich.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Muslim minorities ; v. 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 272 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand
  • Field research
  • Community, identity, diversity
  • The beginnings
  • Muslim representation
  • Organisational functions and aims
  • Outreach programmes
  • The myth of Muslim unity
  • Living among infidels
  • Orientalism and Islamophobia
  • Converts
  • Students
  • The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere
  • The New Zealand state and multiculturalism
  • Secularisation and the right to religion
  • Legal instruments
  • 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity
  • Education and policy framework
  • Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims
  • The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism
  • Rivals for custodianship of public morality
  • Integration and conflict discourses
  • 'When in Rome do as the Romans do'
  • The necessity of minority integration
  • Conflict discourses
  • Blasphemous libel and Islam
  • Danish cartoons rock the world
  • The Pope's gaffe
  • Gender issues : women are equal but different
  • Of gender separation and inequality
  • Concepts of decency and modesty
  • The Burqa case
  • Hijab versus Burqa
  • Whose authority?
  • The Burqa's challenge to multiculturalism
  • Globalisation, political Islam and the rise of fundamentalism
  • Is extremism rising in New Zealand?
  • 'Fundamentalists' and 'moderates' fighting over the Christchurch Mosque and Halal meat
  • Muslim firebrand preachers
  • Re-Islamisation and fundamentalisation in the world
  • Fundamentalism is not all the same
  • The radical concept of Jihad
  • The spectre of terrorism
  • The Zaoui case
  • Epilogue: Muslims in the world.

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