Umfang:
1 online resource (189 pages)
ISBN:
9781400831111
Serie:
Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Ser v.30
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: Trajectories -- CHAPTER ONE: Islam and the Republic -- CHAPTER TWO: Fashioning the French Islamic Landscape -- Migration Pathways -- Religion Rising -- State Responses -- Distinctive Features -- PART TWO: Spaces -- CHAPTER THREE: Mosques Facing Outward -- In the Unruly Suburbs -- Inside the Networks -- The Work of an Everyday Imam -- Mosques and Social Divisions -- CHAPTER FOUR: Shaping Knowledge to France -- Rules, Schools, Principles -- Hichem El Arafa's CERSI -- The Science of Hadith -- The Objectives of Scripture -- CHAPTER FIVE: Differentiating Schools -- Dimensions of Pedagogical Difference -- Objectives and Imam Mâlik -- Practical Training in an Islamic Ambiance -- CHAPTER SIX: Can an Islamic School Be Republican? -- Dhaou Meskine's Success School -- How to Teach a Secular Curriculum in a Muslim School -- Muslim Family Camp -- Arrest -- PART THREE: Debates -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Should There Be an Islam for Europe? -- Thinking about Ribâ -- Different Rules for Different Lands? -- Confrontations in the Mosque -- The Transnational Islamic Sphere -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Negotiating across Realms of Justification -- Between Halâl and the Hôtel de Ville -- Convergence I: From Islam to the Secular -- Convergence II: From French Civil Law toward Islamic Practices -- CHAPTER NINE: Islamic Spheres in Republican Space -- Do Religion-Based Associations Impede Integration? -- On Priorities and Values -- Toward a Pragmatics of Convergence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780691152493
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780691152493
Sprache:
Englisch
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