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New Multicultural Identities in Europe: Religion and Ethnicity in Secular Societies: 1 (Current Issues in Islam, 1) - Softcover

 
9789058679819: New Multicultural Identities in Europe: Religion and Ethnicity in Secular Societies: 1 (Current Issues in Islam, 1)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9058679810 ISBN 13: 9789058679819
Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Multiculturalism in present-day Europe. How to understand Europe’s post-migrant Islam on the one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social and economic transitions on a transnational scale challenge ethnic and religious identifications? These questions are at the very heart of the debate on multiculturalism in present-day Europe and are addressed by the authors in this book. Through the lens of post-migrant societies, manifestations of identity appear in pluralized, fragmented, and deterritorialized forms. This new European multiculturalism calls into question the nature of boundaries between various ethnic-religious groups, as well as the demarcation lines within ethnic-religious communities. Although the contributions in this volume focus on Islam, ample attention is also paid to Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. The authors present empirical data from cases in Turkey, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Norway, Sweden, and Belgium, and sharpen the perspectives on the religious-ethnic manifestations of identity in the transnational context of 21st-century Europe.

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About the Authors

Erkan Toğuşlu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at KU Leuven University, Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies.

Johan Leman is professor emeritus of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven and President of FOYER, a regional minorities centre in Brussels.

İsmail Mesut Sezgin is PhD researcher of the Institute for Spirituality, Religion and Public Life at Leeds Metropolitan University.

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Multiculturalism in present-day Europe. How to understand Europe’s post-migrant Islam on the one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social and economic transitions on a transnational scale challenge ethnic and religious identifications? These questions are at the very heart of the debate on multiculturalism in present-day Europe and are addressed by the authors in this book. Through the lens of post-migrant societies, manifestations of identity appear in pluralized, fragmented, and deterritorialized forms. This new European multiculturalism calls into question the nature of boundaries between various ethnic-religious groups, as well as the demarcation lines within ethnic-religious communities. Although the contributions in this volume focus on Islam, ample attention is also paid to Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. The authors present empirical data from cases in Turkey, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Norway, Sweden, and Belgium, and sharpen the perspectives on the religious-ethnic manifestations of identity in the transnational context of 21st-century Europe.

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Publisher
Leuven University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9058679810
ISBN 13 
9789058679819
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
246
Editor
Toguslu Erkan, Leman Johan, Mesut Sezgin Ismail