Integrating Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Integrating Islam write by Jonathan Laurence. This book was released on 2007-02-01. Integrating Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nearly 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 of Muslims in French society as a form of "reverse colonization"; they believe Muslim political and religious networks seek to undermine European rule of law or that fundamentalists are creating a society entirely separate from the mainstream. Integrating Islam portrays the more complex reality of integration's successes and failures in French politics and society. From intermarriage rates to economic indicators, the authors paint a comprehensive portrait of Muslims in France. Using original research, they devote special attention to the policies developed by successive French governments to encourage integration and discourage extremism. Because of the size of its Muslim population and its universalistic definition of citizenship, France is an especially good test case for the encounter of Islam and the West. Despite serious and sometimes spectacular problems, the authors see a "French Islam" slowly replacing "Islam in France"–in other words, the emergence of a religion and a culture that feels at home in, and is largely at peace with, its host society. Integrating Islam provides readers with a comprehensive view of the state of Muslim integration into French society that cannot be found anywhere else. It is essential reading for students of French politics and those studying the interaction of Islam and the West, as well as the general public.
Legal Integration of Islam
Legal Integration of Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal Integration of Islam write by Christian Joppke. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Legal Integration of Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The status of Islam in Western societies remains deeply contentious. Countering strident claims on both the right and left, Legal Integration of Islam offers an empirically informed analysis of how four liberal democracies—France, Germany, Canada, and the United States—have responded to the challenge of integrating Islam and Muslim populations. Demonstrating the centrality of the legal system to this process, Christian Joppke and John Torpey reject the widely held notion that Europe is incapable of accommodating Islam and argue that institutional barriers to Muslim integration are no greater on one side of the Atlantic than the other. While Muslims have achieved a substantial degree of equality working through the courts, political dynamics increasingly push back against these gains, particularly in Europe. From a classical liberal viewpoint, religion can either be driven out of public space, as in France, or included without sectarian preference, as in Germany. But both policies come at a price—religious liberty in France and full equality in Germany. Often seen as the flagship of multiculturalism, Canada has found itself responding to nativist and liberal pressures as Muslims become more assertive. And although there have been outbursts of anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States, the legal and political recognition of Islam is well established and largely uncontested. Legal Integration of Islam brings to light the successes and the shortcomings of integrating Islam through law without denying the challenges that this religion presents for liberal societies.
Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies
Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies write by Claire L. Adida. This book was released on 2016. Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amid mounting fears of violent Islamic extremism, many Europeans ask whether Muslim immigrants can integrate into historically Christian countries. In a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of France’s Muslim migrant population, Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies explores this complex question. The authors conclude that both Muslim and non-Muslim French must share responsibility for the slow progress of Muslim integration. “Using a variety of resources, research methods, and an innovative experimental design, the authors contend that while there is no doubt that prejudice and discrimination against Muslims exist, it is also true that some Muslim actions and cultural traits may, at times, complicate their full integration into their chosen domiciles. This book is timely (more so in the context of the current Syrian refugee crisis), its insights keen and astute, the empirical evidence meticulous and persuasive, and the policy recommendations reasonable and relevant.” —A. Ahmad, Choice
Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany
Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany write by Kerstin Rosenow-Williams. This book was released on 2012-10-19. Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany, Kerstin Rosenow-Williams analyzes the challenges faced by Islamic organizations in Germany since the beginning of the 21st century. Outlining the expectations German political actors have of Islamic organizations and the internal interests of these organizations, the author illustrates that organizational response strategies involve patterns not only of adaptation, but also of decoupling and protest. The study introduces an innovative research framework based on organizational sociology and provides empirical insights into three major Islamic umbrella organizations (DITIB, IGMG, ZMD) and their relationships with other actors. The comprehensive analysis of the German institutional environment and related developments in Islamic organizations makes this study highly relevant to scholars and politicians, as well as the general public.
Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany
Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany write by Kerstin Rosenow-Williams. This book was released on 2012-10-19. Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kerstin Rosenow-Williams analyzes the challenges faced by Islamic organizations in Germany since the beginning of the 21st century, providing original empirical insights based on a sociological research perspective.
