| Author | : John Richard Bowen |
| File Size | : 42,7 Mb |
| Publisher | : Unknown |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 02 June 2024 |
| ISBN | : OCLC:1018052905 |
| Pages | : 230 pages |
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Get BookBowen 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
Get BookThe French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence
Get BookThis book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one
Get BookNearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa. While France has successfully integrated waves of immigrants in the past, this new influx poses a new variety of challenges—much as it does in neighboring European countries. Alarmists view the growing role
Get BookThe standing of French Muslims is undercut by a predominant and persistent elite public discourse that frames Muslims as failed and incomplete French citizens. This situation fosters the very separations, exclusions, and hierarchies it claims to deplore as Muslims face discrimination in education, housing, and employment. In Constructing Muslims in
Get BookWill Islam be able to adapt to France's secularity and its strict separation of public and private spheres? Can France accommodate Muslims? In this book, Frank Peter argues that the debate about “Islam” and “Muslims” is not simply caused by ignorance or Islamophobia. Rather, it is an integral part of
Get BookSince the beginning of the 1980s France has witnessed intensive preaching activity in Muslim quarters. Hitherto studies of Islamic preaching by the Muslim community that has settled in France for some decades has been rare. This book tries to bring out the significance of this phenomenon of reislamization and mobilisation
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