Islam and Secularity
The Future of Europe's Public Sphere
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2015
280 pages
978-0-8223-7513-5 (ISBN)
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In Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle examines the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. She demonstrates that Islam and secularism are mutually constitutive, constantly changing, and that the presence of Islam unsettles dominant narratives of Western modernism.
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Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Centre d'Études Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron and the École des Hautes Études 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.
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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
