Islam in "liberal" Europe : freedom, equality, and intolerance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hafez, Kai, 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Subjects:	Muslims > Europe > Social conditions. Immigrants > Europe > Social conditions. Muslims > Civil rights > Europe. Muslims > Government policy > Europe. Liberalism > Social aspects > Europe. Islam and politics > Europe. Islam > Social aspects > Europe. Europe > Ethnic relations. Europe > Religion. Europe > Politics and government > 1989-
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of 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
Excursus: The crisis of the middle class : the social Darwinism of cultural difference
3. Media
Mass media : enlightened Islamophobia and the social ethics of communication
Social media : virtual crusaders of the new public sphere
4. The academy and education
Scholarship and intellectualism : the deliberalization of the staged knowledge society
School : the pedagogy of (hesitant) recognition of Islam
5. Religious institutions
Church : the reluctant intermediary
Conclusion: The reinvention of liberal society in Europe.