New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism / Erich Kolig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolig, Erich.

Series:

Muslim minorities ; v. 9.

Muslim minorities, 1570-7571 ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--New Zealand--Social conditions.

Muslims.

Muslims--Cultural assimilation--New Zealand.

Muslims--New Zealand--Ethnic identity.

Multiculturalism--New Zealand.

Multiculturalism.

Group identity--New Zealand.

Group identity.

Islam--New Zealand.

Islam.

New Zealand--Social conditions.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 272 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Issues of integration, multiculturalism and policies of ethnic and religious minority rights have gained greatly in significance in recent years, especially in relation to Muslims. This book deals with the Muslim minority in New Zealand, with special emphasis on policy aspects relevant to the integration of Muslims in the host society. The book also discusses many other issues, among which are Muslim political representation, inner coherence of the Muslim community, effects of public policies, differentiated citizenship, gender issues and gender equality, and points of friction with the encapsulating host society, including the effects of sharia application, radicalism and the fallout of the Danish cartoon affair.

Contents:

Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand

Field research

Community, identity, diversity

The beginnings

Muslim representation

Organisational functions and aims

Outreach programmes

The myth of Muslim unity

Living among infidels

Orientalism and Islamophobia

Converts

Students

The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere

The New Zealand state and multiculturalism

Secularisation and the right to religion

Legal instruments

'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity

Education and policy framework

Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims

The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism

Rivals for custodianship of public morality

Integration and conflict discourses

'When in Rome do as the Romans do'

The necessity of minority integration

Conflict discourses

Blasphemous libel and Islam

Danish cartoons rock the world

The Pope's gaffe

Gender issues : women are equal but different

Of gender separation and inequality

Concepts of decency and modesty

The Burqa case

Hijab versus Burqa

Whose authority?

The Burqa's challenge to multiculturalism

Globalisation, political Islam and the rise of fundamentalism

Is extremism rising in New Zealand?

'Fundamentalists' and 'moderates' fighting over the Christchurch Mosque and Halal meat

Muslim firebrand preachers

Re-Islamisation and fundamentalisation in the world

Fundamentalism is not all the same

The radical concept of Jihad

The spectre of terrorism

The Zaoui case

Epilogue: Muslims in the world.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-95062-2

9786612950629

90-474-4070-6

OCLC:

695988880

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004178359.i-272 DOI