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Why not build the mosque? : Islam, political cost, and the practice of democracy in Greece / Dimitris Antoniou.
Penn Museum Library - New Books Display DF747.M87 A58 2025
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Antoniou, Dimitris, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Contemporary ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims--Greece--Social conditions.
- Muslims.
- Mosques--Greece.
- Mosques.
- Islam and politics--Greece.
- Islam and politics.
- Greece--Ethnic relations.
- Greece.
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece--Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Ethnographies.
- Physical Description:
- 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This book explores the Greek state's attempts to build a mosque. Looking at the project's decades-long history of failure and its bittersweet realization in 2020, Dimitris Antoniou demonstrates the productivity of unrealized plans and sheds light on what it takes for things to happen in contemporary democracies"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- The two mosques : the past in the present
- The promise of the mosque
- The making of "Muslim" subjects
- Islam as a path to democracy
- The locals
- The (other) church
- Politcal cost
- The productivity of the unrealized.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781512827170
- 1512827177
- 9781512827163
- 1512827169
- OCLC:
- 1426287197
- Publisher Number:
- 90104338872
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