"Can Islam Be French?" is an anthropological examination of how
Muslims are responding to the conditions of life in France.
Following up on his book "Why the French Don't Like Headscarves,"
John Bowen turns his attention away from the perspectives of French
non-Muslims to focus on those of the country's Muslims themselves.
Bowen asks not the usual question--how well are Muslims integrating
in France?--but, rather, how do French Muslims think about Islam?
In particular, Bowen examines how French Muslims are fashioning new
Islamic institutions and developing new ways of reasoning and
teaching. He looks at some of the quite distinct ways in which
mosques have connected with broader social and political forces,
how Islamic educational entrepreneurs have fashioned niches for new
forms of schooling, and how major Islamic public actors have set
out a specifically French approach to religious norms. All of these
efforts have provoked sharp responses in France and from overseas
centers of Islamic scholarship, so Bowen also looks closely at
debates over how--and how far--Muslims should adapt their religious
traditions to these new social conditions. He argues that the
particular ways in which Muslims have settled in France, and in
which France governs religions, have created incentives for Muslims
to develop new, pragmatic ways of thinking about religious issues
in French society.
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