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"Islam in 'Liberal' Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the political and social status of Islam and of Muslim migrants in Europe. Kai Hafez shows that although legal and political systems have made progress toward recognizing Muslims on equal terms and eliminating dis...
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English German |
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| Summary: |
"Islam in 'Liberal' Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the political and social status of Islam and of Muslim migrants in Europe. Kai Hafez shows that although legal and political systems have made progress toward recognizing Muslims on equal terms and eliminating discriminatory practices that are in contradiction to neutral secularism, 'liberal societies' often lag behind. The author argues that Islamophobic murders in Norway and Germany are only the tip of the iceberg of a deep-seated inability of many Europeans to accept cultural globalization when it hits close to home . |
| Item Description: | Translated from the German. |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 409 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-388) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781442229518 (cloth : alkaline paper) : 1442229519 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | D1056 |
| CLC: |
D750.38 D750.63 |
| Call Number: | D750.63/H138 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Is liberal society Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde? -- 1. Politics and law -- Law : Muslims in the secular constitutional state and the problem of effective equality -- State : the ambivalence of state policies on Islam -- Parliaments, parties, movements : "Representation without participation" or the problem of hegemony in democracy -- Political culture : Muslims' loyalty to the system -- 2. Society -- The bourgeois majority : from respectable Islamophobia to system-society rupture -- The Muslim minority : necessary integration and recognition-worthy segregation ... |