The emancipation of Europe's muslims : the state's role in minority integration / Jonathan Laurence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laurence, Jonathan.

Series:

Princeton studies in Muslim politics.

Princeton studies in Muslim politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social integration--Religious aspects--Islam.

Social integration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the widespread notion that Europe's Muslim minorities represent a threat to liberal democracy. He documents how European governments in the 1970's and 1980's excluded Islam from domestic institutions, instead inviting foreign powers like Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Turkey to oversee the practice of Islam among immigrants in European host societies. But since the 1990's, amid rising integration problems and fears about terrorism, governments have aggressively stepped up efforts to reach out to their Muslim communities and incorporate them into the institutional, political, and cultural fabrics of European democracy. The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims places these efforts--particularly the government-led creation of Islamic councils--within a broader theoretical context and gleans insights from government interactions with groups such as trade unions and Jewish communities at previous critical junctures in European state-building. By examining how state-mosque relations in Europe are linked to the ongoing struggle for religious and political authority in the Muslim-majority world, Laurence sheds light on the geopolitical implications of a religious minority's transition from outsiders to citizens. This book offers a much-needed reassessment that foresees the continuing integration of Muslims into European civil society and politics in the coming decades.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Abbreviations

Preface

Chapter One. A Leap in the Dark: Muslims and the State in Twenty-first-Century Europe

Chapter Two. European Outsourcing and Embassy Islam: L'islam, c'est moi

Chapter Three. A Politicized Minority: The Qur'ân is our Constitution

Chapter Four. Citizens, Groups, and the State

Chapter Five. The Domestication of State-Mosque Relations

Chapter Six. Imperfect Institutionalization: Islam Councils in Europe

Chapter Seven. The Partial Emancipation: Muslim Responses to the State-Islam Consultations

Chapter Eight. Muslim Integration and European Islam in the Next Generation

Notes

Interviews

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613380067

9781283380065

1283380064

9781400840373

1400840376

OCLC:

769344466