UID:
edocfu_9959242061802883
Format:
1 online resource (417 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4422-2952-7
Content:
Islam in ""Liberal"" Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the political and social status of Islam and of Muslim migrants in Europe. In addition to offering a critical assessment of positive and negative trends in Islamic-Western relations, Kai Hafez also engages in a theoretical debate revolving around integration, tolerance, multicultural liberalism, and modern liberal democracy. Assessing Islamophobia as it is manifested in politics, society, media, academia, school, and churches, the author debates the question of whether
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Introduction: Is Liberal Society Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?; Renewing Liberal Democracy; The Book; Notes; 1 Politics and Law; 1. Law: Muslims in the Secular Constitutional State and the Problem of Effective Equality; 2. State: The Ambivalence of State Policies on Islam; 3. Parliaments, Parties, Movements: "Representation without Participation" or the Problem of Hegemony in Democracy; 4. Political Culture: Muslims' Loyalty to the System; Notes; 2 Society; 1. The Bourgeois Majority: From Respectable Islamophobia to System-Society Rupture
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2. The Muslim Minority: Necessary Integration and Recognition-Worthy Segregation3. Excursus-The Crisis of the Middle Class: The Social Darwinism of Cultural Difference; Notes; 3 Media; 1. Mass Media: Enlightened Islamophobia and the Social Ethics of Communication; 2. Social Media: Virtual Crusaders of the New Public Sphere; Notes; 4 The Academy and Education; 1. Scholarship and Intellectualism: The Deliberalization of the Staged Knowledge Society; 2. School: The Pedagogy of (Hesitant) Recognition of Islam; Notes; 5 Religious Institutions; Church: The Reluctant Intermediary; Notes
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Conclusion: The Reinvention of Liberal Society in EuropeNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4422-2951-9
Language:
English
