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Islam in Liberal Europe
Freedom, Equality, and Intolerance
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2014
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Islam in "Liberal" Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the political and social status of Islam and of Muslim migrants in Europe. Kai Hafez shows that although legal and political systems have made progress toward recognizing Muslims on equal terms and eliminating discriminatory practices that are in contradiction to neutral secularism, “liberal societies” often lag behind. The author argues that Islamophobic murders in Norway and Germany are only the tip of the iceberg of a deep-seated inability of many Europeans to accept cultural globalization when it hits close to home. Although there have always been anti-racist elites and networks in Europe, Hafez contends that the dominant tradition even among seemingly liberal intellectual milieus and their media is Islamophobic. This fact finds expression not only in the growing anti-Islam sentiment among right-wing populists but sometimes also in so-called enlightened forms of contemporary media, public opinion, school curricula, and Christian interfaith dialogues.
In addition to offering a critical assessment of positive and negative trends in Islamic-Western relations, Hafez also engages in a theoretical debate revolving around integration, tolerance, multicultural liberalism, and modern liberal democracy. He combines political philosophy and political and social theory with current analysis on communication and the role of both religious and secular institutions in community-building in modern societies. In essence, the author debates the question of whether liberal society in Europe, in order to avoid a growing gap between integrative politics and discriminatory societies, needs a complete renewal not only of political ideologies but also of cultures and institutions.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-2951-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-2952-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
409
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Renewing Liberal Democracy No access
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1. Law: Muslims in the Secular Constitutional State and the Problem of Effective Equality No access
2. State: The Ambivalence of State Policies on Islam No access
3. Parliaments, Parties, Movements: “Representation without Participation” or the Problem of Hegemony in Democracy No access
4. Political Culture: Muslims’ Loyalty to the System No access
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1. The Bourgeois Majority: From Respectable Islamophobia to System-Society Rupture No access
2. The Muslim Minority: Necessary Integration and Recognition-Worthy Segregation No access
3. Excursus—The Crisis of the Middle Class: The Social Darwinism of Cultural Difference No access
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1. Mass Media: Enlightened Islamophobia and the Social Ethics of Communication No access
2. Social Media: Virtual Crusaders of the New Public Sphere No access
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1. Scholarship and Intellectualism: The Deliberalization of the Staged Knowledge Society No access
2. School: The Pedagogy of (Hesitant) Recognition of Islam No access
