The Burqa Affair Across Europe
Between Public and Private Space
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2013
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-4094-7065-6 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years, the wearing of the full-face veil or burqa/niqab has proved a controversial issue in many multi-cultural European societies. Focussing on the socio-legal and human rights angle, this volume provides a useful comparative perspective on how the issue has been dealt with across a range of European states as well as at European institutional level. In so doing, the work draws a theoretical framework for the place of religion between public and private space. With contributions from leading experts from law, sociology and politics, the book presents a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to one of the most contentious and symbolic issues of recent times.
Reviews / Votes
'This book poses a substantial challenge to those who would limit religious freedom in Europe by banning Muslim women's full-face covering, commonly called burqa. The authors place the legal issues in a broader political, social and cultural context. In so doing, they expose the questionable grounds for banning the burqa in France and Belgium and of proposals elsewhere.' JA?rgen S. Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 'This volume is a milestone of legal and sociological research regarding one of the most heated European debates on religion in public space. It follows a most welcome and urgently needed pragmatic approach in accordance with European guarantees of human rights - a benchmark for future reflections.' Mathias Rohe, Friedrich-Alexander-UniversitA?t Erlangen-NA1/4rnberg, Germany '...this book is a useful reference to the regulation of the burqa in Europe, including contributions by scholars who are knowledgeable about the situation in the countries about which they write.' Journal of Contemporary Religion '... this book will appeal to scholars with an interest in Islam and human rights. Its thorough legal discussion of this controversy in Europe enables the reader to gain a wider perspective than would be afforded by a monograph about a specific national context. On the other hand, it could also be effectively used as a reference text by sociologists hoping to situate their own case-study analyses within a legal framework.' American Journal of Islamic Social SciencesMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4094-7065-6 (9781409470656)
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Between Public and Private Space
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Between Public and Private Space
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The Burqa Affair Across Europe
Between Public and Private Space
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03/2016
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Routledge
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Persons
Alessandro Ferrari teaches Law and Religion and Comparative Religious Laws at the University of Insubria (Como-Varese) and is also a member of the Groupe Societes, Religions, LaA?cites (GSRL-CNRS/A0/00cole Pratique des Hautes A0/00tudes-Sorbonne) and of Centre Prisme Politique, Religion, Institutions et Societes : Mutations Europeennes of Strasbourg. He is the coordinator of the Inter-University project 'New Religious Presences' (www.fidr.it ) and member of the Conferenza Permanente Religioni, Cultura e Integrazione at the Italian Ministry for International Cooperation and Integration. His main research interests focus on the present changes of the right of religious freedom in the globalized context. His latest book is Diritto e Religione nell'Islam Mediterraneo (Law and Religion in Mediterranean Islam) (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012). Sabrina Pastorelli is Research Fellow at the Institute of International Law - section of Ecclesiastical and Canon Law - University of Milan, Faculty of Law. She is also a member of the Groupe Societes, Religions, LaA?cites (GSRL-CNRS/A0/00cole Pratique des Hautes A0/00tudes-Sorbonne) and the Centre Politique, Religion, Institutions et Societes : Mutations Europeennes (PRISME-CNRS/University of Strasbourg). She teaches sociology of religion and political sociology at the University of Caen. Her research interests include sociology of religion; new religious movements; law and religion in the Europe; religious education; regulation of religious pluralism; state public policy and religion. She is a member of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), the Association internationale des sociologues de langue franA?aise (AISLF), the Italian Sociological Association (AIS), the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR).
Content
Introduction, Alessandro Ferrari, Sabrina Pastorelli; Chapter 1 In Praise of Pragmatism, Silvio Ferrari; Chapter 2 Burqa and Islam, Roberta Aluffi Beck-Peccoz; Chapter 3 Burqa, Niqab and Women's Rights, Letizia Mancini; Chapter 4 A Besieged Right: Religious Freedom and the Italian War on the Burqa and the Niqab, Alessandro Ferrari; Chapter 5 The Burqa Affair in France, Anne Fornerod; Chapter 6 Legal and Social Issues Concerning the Wearing of the Burqa and Other Head Coverings in the United Kingdom, Mark Hill; Chapter 7 Introducing a General Burqa Ban in the Netherlands, Adriaan Overbeeke; Chapter 8 The Burqa Affair in Spain: Legal Perspectives, Agustin Motilla; Chapter 9 The Belgian 'Burqa Ban': Legal Aspects of Local and General Prohibitions on Covering and Concealing One's Face in Belgium, Jogchum Vrielink, Saila Ouald Chaib, Eva Brems; Chapter 10 A Quest for Open Helmets: On the Danish Burqa Affair, Lisbet Christoffersen; Chapter 11 Burqa in Germany - Not Really an Issue: A Short Note 1 We wish to thank Matthias Fleischer for his assistance in writing this chapter., Joern Thielmann, Kathrin Vorholzer; Chapter 12. Subsequent to the Como meeting there have been further workshops on the face-veil, including Empirical Face Veil Research, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, 9 May 2012 (Organiser: Eva Brems); and 'Illegal' Covering: Comparative Perspectives on Legal and Social Discourses on Religious Diversity, International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL), Onati, Spain, 17-18 May 2012 (Organisers: Valerie Amiraux and Pascale Fournier)., Ralph Grillo, Prakash Shah; Chapter 13 The Burqa in Europe: European Institutions and the Comparative/Interdisciplinary Approach, Daniele Ferrari, Sabrina Pastorelli; concl Conclusion: The European Burqa Debates: Past, Present and Future 1 These comments are based on a paper presented at the ENAR conference on European Racisms in Brusssels on 27-28 September 2012., Maleiha Malik; oth1 The Religare-Como Declaration on the Issue of the Burqa;