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Islam in the West
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ISBN: 9780776626413 0776626418 9780776626420 0776626426 9780776626437 0776626434 077662640X 9780776626406 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario

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The need to explore further the notion of Muslim identity, integration, citizenship, belonging and loyalty in the West has never been greater. This book provides a vibrant discussion on the most debated issues regarding Canadian Muslims, in four parts. Canada and Canadian Muslims offers an overview and a profile of Canada and Canadian Muslims, and provides perspectives on the healthy context of a receiving society. Canadian Muslim Identity tries to answer some hard questions surrounding the interplay between religious and national identities. Are these two types of identities contradictory or complimentary? In Constructive Integration, the Canadian model of integration is compared with two very different approaches: the French assimilationist model and the Bosnian exclusionist approach. Faithful Citizenship explores questions of citizenship from an Islamic perspective, taking into account Islamic formative principles -- the Qur'an and Sunnah (the Prophetic tradition) as they pertain to the globalized world of today, includes historical perspectives from early Muslim history as well as from contemporary times. This book is intended to offer a constructive addition to the current discourse on the place of Canadian Muslims and Islam in Canada in the hopes of facilitating greater understanding, respect, and acceptance. This is the inaugural title for our Collection 101 series, a short introduction, in 101 pages, to topics torn from the headlines.


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The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims
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ISBN: 9780691144214 9780691144221 0691144222 0691144214 9786613380067 1400840376 1283380064 9781400840373 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the widespread notion that Europe's Muslim minorities represent a threat to liberal democracy. He documents how European governments in the 1970's and 1980's excluded Islam from domestic institutions, instead inviting foreign powers like Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Turkey to oversee the practice of Islam among immigrants in European host societies. But since the 1990's, amid rising integration problems and fears about terrorism, governments have aggressively stepped up efforts to reach out to their Muslim communities and incorporate them into the institutional, political, and cultural fabrics of European democracy. The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims places these efforts--particularly the government-led creation of Islamic councils--within a broader theoretical context and gleans insights from government interactions with groups such as trade unions and Jewish communities at previous critical junctures in European state-building. By examining how state-mosque relations in Europe are linked to the ongoing struggle for religious and political authority in the Muslim-majority world, Laurence sheds light on the geopolitical implications of a religious minority's transition from outsiders to citizens. This book offers a much-needed reassessment that foresees the continuing integration of Muslims into European civil society and politics in the coming decades.

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Islam --- Sociology of minorities --- Europe --- Muslims --- Islam and state --- Musulmans --- Islam et Etat --- Government policy --- Cultural assimilation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Politique gouvernementale --- Acculturation --- Droit --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:316.331H421 --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Morfologie van de godsdiensten: Islam --- Social integration --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Inclusion, Social --- Integration, Social --- Social inclusion --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Mosque and state --- State and Islam --- State, The --- Ummah (Islam) --- Sociology --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Embassy Islam. --- European Islam. --- European democracy. --- European governments. --- European policy approaches. --- European politics. --- Islam Councils. --- Islamist subculture. --- Islamist terrorism. --- Muslim communities. --- Muslim immigrants. --- Muslim integration. --- Muslim minorities. --- Muslim religious associations. --- Muslim religious life. --- Muslims. --- Political Islam. --- Political-Islam activism. --- Political-Islam federations. --- Western Europe. --- civil society organizations. --- demographic trends. --- domestic orientation. --- emancipation. --- foreign government representatives. --- host countries. --- incorporation outcomes. --- institutional integration. --- institutionalization. --- integration problems. --- interior ministries. --- liberal democracy. --- migrant populations. --- nation building. --- national councils. --- new citizen groups. --- oil. --- organizational structures. --- outsourcing. --- political authority. --- political integration. --- politics. --- pre-electoral political behavior. --- religion. --- religious authority. --- religious communities. --- religious community life. --- religious organizations. --- religious representation. --- return-oriented policies. --- social integration. --- state authority. --- state-building challenges. --- stateЭosque relations. --- temporary migration. --- terrorism. --- trade relationships. --- transnational religious NGOs. --- western democracies. --- Muslims - Government policy - Europe --- Muslims - Cultural assimilation - Europe --- Islam and state - Europe --- Muslims - Legal status, laws, etc. - Europe --- Islam - Europe

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