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This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest
movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements
contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety
of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public
norms, public memory and public art, it considers the tendency of
political contestations to move beyond national boundaries and
create transnational connections. Departing from the approaches of
social movements perspectives, it focuses on public space as a site
of social "mixity" and opens up a new field for the study of
politics and cultural controversies. An analysis of the
paradigmatic change in the way in which society is made and
politics is conducted, this study of the new enactment of
citizenship in public space will appeal to scholars of sociology,
anthropology, geography and politics with interests in protest
movements and contentious politics, citizenship and the public
sphere, and globalization.
The public visibility of Islam is becoming increasingly
controversial throughout European countries. With case studies
drawn from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, this book
examines a range of public issues, including mosque construction,
ritual slaughter, Sharia councils and burqa bans, addressing the
question of 'Islamic difference' in public life outside the
confines of established normative discourses that privilege freedom
of religion, minority rights or multiculturalism. Acknowledging the
creative role of dissent, it explores the manner in which public
controversies unsettle the religious-secular divide and reshape
European norms in the domains of aesthetics, individual freedom,
animal rights and law. Developing an innovative conceptual
framework and elaborating the notion of controversy as a
methodological tool, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe draws
our attention to the processes of interaction, confrontation and
mutual transformation, thereby opening up a new horizon for
rethinking difference and pluralism in Europe. As such, it will
appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in
religion, integration, cultural difference and the public sphere.
The public visibility of Islam is becoming increasingly
controversial throughout European countries. With case studies
drawn from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, this book
examines a range of public issues, including mosque construction,
ritual slaughter, Sharia councils and burqa bans, addressing the
question of 'Islamic difference' in public life outside the
confines of established normative discourses that privilege freedom
of religion, minority rights or multiculturalism. Acknowledging the
creative role of dissent, it explores the manner in which public
controversies unsettle the religious-secular divide and reshape
European norms in the domains of aesthetics, individual freedom,
animal rights and law. Developing an innovative conceptual
framework and elaborating the notion of controversy as a
methodological tool, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe draws
our attention to the processes of interaction, confrontation and
mutual transformation, thereby opening up a new horizon for
rethinking difference and pluralism in Europe. As such, it will
appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in
religion, integration, cultural difference and the public sphere.
In Islam and Secularity Nilufer Goele takes on two pressing issues:
the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular
modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Goele
shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public
sphere unsettles narratives of Western secularism. As mutually
constitutive, Islam and secularism permeate each other, the effects
of which play out in embodied and aesthetic practices and are
accompanied by fear, anxiety, and violence. In this timely book,
Goele illuminates the recent rethinking of secularism and religion,
of modernity and resistance to it, of the public significance of
sexuality, and of the shifting terrain of identity in contemporary
Europe.
In Islam and Secularity Nilufer Goele takes on two pressing issues:
the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular
modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Goele
shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public
sphere unsettles narratives of Western secularism. As mutually
constitutive, Islam and secularism permeate each other, the effects
of which play out in embodied and aesthetic practices and are
accompanied by fear, anxiety, and violence. In this timely book,
Goele illuminates the recent rethinking of secularism and religion,
of modernity and resistance to it, of the public significance of
sexuality, and of the shifting terrain of identity in contemporary
Europe.
For many in the West, Islam has become a byword for terrorism. From
9/11 to the Paris attacks, our headlines are dominated by images of
violence and extremism. Now, as the Western world struggles to cope
with the refugee crisis, there is a growing obsession with the
issue of Muslim integration. Those Muslims who fail to assimilate
are branded the 'enemy within', with their communities said to
provide a fertile breeding ground for jihadists. Such narratives,
though, fail to take into account the actual lives of most Muslims
living in the West, fixating instead on a minority of violent
extremists. In The Daily Lives of Muslims, Nilufer Goele provides
an urgently needed corrective to this distorted image of Islam.
Engaging with Muslim communities in twenty-one cities across Europe
where controversies over integration have arisen - from the banning
of the veil in France to debates surrounding sharia law in the UK -
the book brings the voices of this neglected majority into the
debate. In doing so, Goele uncovers a sincere desire among many
Muslims to participate in the public sphere, a desire which is too
often stifled by Western insecurity and attempts to suppress the
outward signs of religious difference.
For many in the West, Islam has become a byword for terrorism. From
9/11 to the Paris attacks, our headlines are dominated by images of
violence and extremism. Now, as the Western world struggles to cope
with the refugee crisis, there is a growing obsession with the
issue of Muslim integration. Those Muslims who fail to assimilate
are branded the 'enemy within', with their communities said to
provide a fertile breeding ground for jihadists. Such narratives,
though, fail to take into account the actual lives of most Muslims
living in the West, fixating instead on a minority of violent
extremists. In The Daily Lives of Muslims, Nilufer Goele provides
an urgently needed corrective to this distorted image of Islam.
Engaging with Muslim communities in twenty-one cities across Europe
where controversies over integration have arisen - from the banning
of the veil in France to debates surrounding sharia law in the UK -
the book brings the voices of this neglected majority into the
debate. In doing so, Goele uncovers a sincere desire among many
Muslims to participate in the public sphere, a desire which is too
often stifled by Western insecurity and attempts to suppress the
outward signs of religious difference.
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