Islam and Secularity
The Future of Europe's Public Sphere
Published on 23. October 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-8223-5998-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Islam and Secularity NilUEfer GOEle takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. GOEle shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public sphere unsettles narratives of Western secularism. As mutually constitutive, Islam and secularism permeate each other, the effects of which play out in embodied and aesthetic practices and are accompanied by fear, anxiety, and violence. In this timely book, GOEle illuminates the recent rethinking of secularism and religion, of modernity and resistance to it, of the public significance of sexuality, and of the shifting terrain of identity in contemporary Europe.
Reviews / Votes
"Once again, then, GOEle attends simultaneously to the asymmetries of power and the dynamics of reinvention-the hallmark more generally of this readable, analytically complex, and timely new book." - Mayanthi Fernando (Reading Religion) "GOEle's contributions are manifold. . . . This work is a must-read for a graduate seminar on the topic. It is highly recommended for both researchers and nonprofessionals." - Hakan Erdagoez (Sociology of Religion) "Islam and Secularity makes for very rewarding and stimulating reading. It is exceptionally well suited to relocate debates about European secularity and Islam into global and historical perspectives. Concise and clearly written, the book is packed with wide-ranging arguments that will challenge the reader on many levels and with fascinating case studies." - Frank Peter (Journal of Islamic Studies)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
345 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-5998-2 (9780822359982)
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E-Book
10/2015
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Person
NilUEfer GOEle is Professor of Sociology at the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). She is the author of Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism and editor of Islam and Public Controversy in Europe.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
1. Public Sphere beyond Religious-Secular Dichotomies 1
2. Secular Modernity in Question 31
3. Religious-Secular Frontiers: State, Public Sphere, and the Self 53
4. Web of Secular Power: Civilization, Space, and Sexuality 73
5. The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere 103
6. Public Islam: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries 135
7. Public Culture, Art, and Islam: Turkish-Delight in Vienna 161
8. Europe's Trouble with Islam: What Future? 193
Notes 227
Bibliography 243
Index 257
1. Public Sphere beyond Religious-Secular Dichotomies 1
2. Secular Modernity in Question 31
3. Religious-Secular Frontiers: State, Public Sphere, and the Self 53
4. Web of Secular Power: Civilization, Space, and Sexuality 73
5. The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere 103
6. Public Islam: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries 135
7. Public Culture, Art, and Islam: Turkish-Delight in Vienna 161
8. Europe's Trouble with Islam: What Future? 193
Notes 227
Bibliography 243
Index 257