In the past decade Muslims in Europe have been the subject of heated debates on the place and role of religion in the public space. Research into the issues involved has often used visible and formalised expressions of Muslim religiosity as its empirical point of departure. This book instead examines the microlevel workings of Muslim minority religiosity to offer a new perspective on these debates. Contributors to this volume examine the forms of Muslim religiosity which are not dependent on the official or semi-official settings of organised religion. These ethnographic studies investigate a range of examples of non-organised Islam, ranging from salafi-jihadism, to converts to Islam, to everyday spiritualities of Muslim in Europe. By exploring these neglected forms of Muslim religiosity, this book is able to build up a more nuanced picture of the role of Muslims in Europe. It will be of interest to academics, researchers and graduate students of Religion, Ethnic Studies, Migration Studies, Sociology and Political Science. This book was previously published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

In the past decade Muslims in Europe have been the subject of heated debates on the place and role of religion in the public space. Research into the issues involved has often used visible and formalised expressions of Muslim religiosity as its empirical point of departure. This book instead examines the microlevel workings of Muslim minority religiosity to offer a new perspective on these debates.

Contributors to this volume examine the forms of Muslim religiosity which are not dependent on the official or semi-official settings of organised religion. These ethnographic studies investigate a range of examples of non-organised Islam, ranging from salafi-jihadism, to converts to Islam, to everyday spiritualities of Muslim in Europe. By exploring these neglected forms of Muslim religiosity, this book is able to build up a more nuanced picture of the role of Muslims in Europe. It will be of interest to academics, researchers and graduate students of Religion, Ethnic Studies, Migration Studies, Sociology and Political Science.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Selvom denne bog baerer navnet RESPEKT for LIVET, sa bor det pointeres, at den i endnu hojere grad omhandler de forsyndelser mod dette hensyn, som vi mennesker gor os skyldige i. Dom selv

Little has been published in English about Islam in Denmark although interest grew after the cartoons crisis of 2005-6. Danish research on the subject is extensive, and this volume aims to present some of the most recent to an international audience. While many of the circumstances which apply across western Europe - the history of immigration and refugees, settlement, the growth of Muslim organizations and international links, challenges of social and cultural encounter, and more recently Islam as a security issue - also apply in Denmark, there are also differences. A small, compact country with no recent imperial history, Denmark's unified institutional, religious and social culture can make it difficult for newcomers to integrate. The fourteen chapters in this book cover the topic in three parts. The first part deals with the history and statistics of immigration and settlement, and the religious institutional responses, Christian and Muslim. Part two looks at specific issues and the interaction with the developing national debate about identity and minority. Finally part three presents the experience of four active participants in the processes of integration: youth work and hospital chaplaincy, interreligious dialogue, and the views of an imam.

Denne bog byder p en flyrejse jorden rundt og undervejs p sp ndende oplevelser og facts God rejse

With Danes becoming known for their xenophobia and intolerance, a reputation that can be traced in the media, this study tries to make sense of the divergent attitudes by analysing media reports in neighbouring countries and by interviewing their journalists and politicians. This title examines sources in the media, foreign politicians' remarks and reports from the Council of Europe and the EU Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, to which it adds some comparative surveys from the social sciences. One of its major fndings is that xenophobia is multidimensional. For instance, while Danish people might be quite hestitant to admit immigrants to their country, in contrast to the Germans, for example, once they have admitted them, Danes tend to encourage the full participation of immigrants in social and political life and don't consider extradition an option. In this study, the author tries to make sense of the divergent attitudes by analysing media reports in neighbouring countries (Norway, Sweden, Germany and the UK) and by interviewing their journalists and politicians. One source of perpetual difference that emerges is the varying nature of political discourse in each country. While the EUMC considers references to problems with immigration a form of subtle racism, the Danish love of teasing and black humour means that media and politicians often refer to the downside of immigration, even when they favour immigration. In contrast, the Swedish press tends to avoid such references, and the language of their political discourse tends to be much more formal and respectful, even when the motivating sentiments are not. This title should interest anyone who is caught up in the debates of ethnicity and tolerance that animate so many first world societies in transition, whether their interest is sociological, cultural or political.