UID:
almahu_9949068674702882
Format:
1 online resource (257 p.)
Edition:
1 ed.
ISBN:
1-136-58931-7
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1-136-58932-5
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0-203-18105-0
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in religion and politics
Content:
Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalises and causes such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, mi
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Politics, Religion and Gender; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Framing and regulating the veil: an introduction: Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer; Part I: Frames and framing; 1. Veiled debates: gender and gender equality in European national narratives: Rikke Andreassen and Doutje Lettinga; 2. Thinking through secularism: debates on the Muslim veil in Europe: Eirini Avramopoulou, Gül Çorbacıoğlu and Maria Eleonora Sanna
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3. Negotiating belonging: or how a differentiated citizenship is legitimized in European headscarf debates: Nora Gresch, Petra Rostock and Sevgi Kılıç4. Discursive Europeanization? Negotiating Europe in headscarf debates: İlker Ataç, Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer; Part II: Regulations and actors; 5. Legal regulations: responses to the Muslim headscarf in Europe: Sabine Berghahn; 6. Regulating religious symbols in public schools: the legal status of the Islamic headscarf in Bulgaria: Kristen Ghodsee
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7. The limits of populism: accommodative headscarf policies in Austria, Denmark, and the Netherlands: Leila Hadj-Abdou,Sieglinde Rosenberger, Sawitri Saharso and Birte Siim8. In the name of laïcité and neutrality: prohibitive regulations of the veil in France, Germany, and Turkey: Sabine Berghahn, Gül Çorbacıoğlu, Petra Rostock and Maria Eleonora Sanna; 9. Non-regulation: opportunity for freedom of religion or sedimentation of existing power structures?: Rikke Andreassen, Eirini Avramopoulou, Nora Gresch, Sevgi Kılıç and Birgit Sauer
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10. Muslim women's participation in the veil controversy: Austria and the UK compared: Leila Hadj-Abdou and Linda WoodheadConclusion: the veil as a case of value diversity and European values: Sawitri Saharso; Appendix 1: list of cited documents; Appendix 2: list of major frames and subframes of the VEIL project's frame analysis; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-70513-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-56148-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.4324/9780203181058
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