Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- PART I CONTROVERSIES AND PUBLICS -- 1 Introduction: Islamic Controversies in the Making of European Public Spheres -- 2 How Do You Become Contemporary? On Controversies and Common Sense -- 3 Secularism and/or Cosmopolitanism -- PART II PUBLIC ISLAM, PIETY AND SECULARITY -- 4 Self, Islam and Secular Public Spaces -- 5 The Mosque and the European City -- 6 Conflicts over Mosques in Europe: Between Symbolism and Territory -- 7 The Secular Embodiments of Face-Veil Controversies across Europe -- PART III ISLAM, ART AND THE EUROPEAN IMAGINARY -- 8 Representing Prophets and Saints in Islam: From Classical Positions to Present-Day Reactions -- 9 Islam in the Mirror of Our Phantasms -- 10 The Case of the Danish Cartoons Controversy: The Paradox of Civility -- 11 Halal Arts: Censorship or Creative Ethical Practice? -- PART IV HALAL, SHARIA AND SECULAR LAW: COMPETING SOURCES OF NORMATIVITY -- 12 The British Debate over Sharia Councils: A French-Style Controversy? -- 13 Ethics and Affects in British Sharia Councils: "A Simple Way of Getting to Paradise" -- 14 The Eclectic Usage of Halal and Conflicts of Authority -- 15 Animal Rights Movements and Ritual Slaughtering: Autopsy of a Moribund Campaign -- 16 Halal Circle: Intimacy and Friendship among the Young Muslims of Europe -- PART V EUROPEAN GENEALOGIES OF ISLAM AND POLITICS OF MEMORY -- 17 Medieval Spain and the Integration of Memory (On the Unfinished Project of Pre-Modernity) -- 18 The Contemporary Afterlife of Moorish Spain -- 19 Fugitive or Cosmopolitan: The Bosniaks' Desire for Europe and Trouble with the Ottoman Past
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pt. I. Controversies and publics -- pt. II. Public Islam, piety and secularity -- pt. III. Islam, art and the European imaginary -- pt. IV. Halal, Sharia and secular law : competing sources of normativity -- pt. V. European genealogies of Islam and politics of memory.
In: Global Connections
Developing an innovative conceptual framework and elaborating the notion of controversy as a methodological tool, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe draws our attention to the processes of interaction, confrontation and mutual transformation, thereby opening up a new horizon for rethinking difference and pluralism in Europe. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in religion, integration, cultural difference and the public sphere
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