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Conspicuously, Islam has become a key concern in most European societies with respect to issues of immigration, integration, identity, values and inland security. As the mere presence of Muslim minorities fails to explain these debates convincingly, new questions need to be asked: How did »Islam« become a topic? Who takes part in the debates? How do these debates influence both individual as well as collective »self-images« and »image of others«? Introducing Switzerland as an under-researched object of study to the academic discourse on Islam in Europe, this volume offers a fresh perspective o

Dynamics, feeling, and meanings -- Ritual, values, and emotions -- Identity depletion -- Grief, intensive living, and charisma -- Gender, identity, and purity -- Love, mercy, humility, and betrayal -- Merit, grace, and pardon -- Moral-somatics, hope, despair, and suffering -- Revelation, conversion, and spirit power -- Sacred place, worship, and music -- Sensory identity : wisdom, wonder, and worship

The history of abortion, reproductive genetic technologies, and the contemporary public's views -- Talking about embryonic life -- Nature, God, humanity, and promethean fatalism -- Human dignity and equality of treatment -- Meaningful suffering -- Will religious discourse about reproductive genetic technologies limit debate? -- Conclusions -- Appendix A. methodological appendix -- Appendix B. religious respondent interview guide

section A. Ethnographic study of Dardpora village -- section B. Anthropological survey of Sawalkot, Ramban area -- Section C. Sociological study