Study of religion and the training of Muslim clergy in Europe : academic and religious freedom in the 21st century / edited by Willem B. Drees, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drees, Willem B., editor.

Series:

LUP Academic

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Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Study and teaching.

Religion.

Freedom of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (503 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, c2008.

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

Articles in English with some excerpts from relevant Arabic and German sources.

Summary:

Religious scholarship can be offensive to believers, as conflicts from the time of Galileo and Spinoza to the recent critique of Danish religious scholars in the wake of the infamous Muhammad cartoons have shown. Studies of this type of scholarship have been appropriated by believers as a means of reinventing their own identities - as the training of twentieth-century Muslim clergy demonstrates. This volume offers a unique collection of training materials from European Muslim clergy since the 1940's - including Third Reich reports on debriefing imams, surveillance files on Muslim activists, and information on Bosnian clergy and their training centres - as well as an exploration of religion and academic freedom in general, accompanied by appendices in both Arabic and English.

Contents:

pt. 1. Academic freedom and the study of religion

pt. 2. The academic training of Muslim clergy in Europe.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611991401

9781281991409

1281991406

9789048510054

9048510058

OCLC:

311035964

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access