Islam in Public: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries
In: Public culture, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 173-190
ISSN: 1527-8018
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In: Public culture, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 173-190
ISSN: 1527-8018
In: Confluences Méditerranée: revue trimestrielle, Heft 33: Politique et religion en pays d'islam, S. 85-93
ISSN: 1148-2664
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In: Confluences Méditerranée: revue trimestrielle, Heft 33, S. 85-94
ISSN: 1148-2664
In: Confluences Méditerranée: revue trimestrielle, Heft 27, S. 87-94
ISSN: 1148-2664
In: New perspectives on Turkey: NPT, Band 19, S. 53-70
ISSN: 1305-3299
We thought "isms" were dead after our disillusionment with socialist utopian thinking in practice. But in the last two decades, new "isms," Islamism, feminism and postmodernism, each very distinct, have changed our lives as much as our conceptions of ourselves and our societies. Feminism redefined woman's identity and, by the same token, changed the relations between man and woman; Islamism brought Muslim actors to modern politics, in which the veiling of women blurs habitual distinctions between public and private, traditional and modern; and post-modernism-by pursuing the critique initiated by new social movements for egalitarian, progressive, emancipatory values of enlightened modernity-challenged the central and hierarchical place occupied by the West as standard-bearer of modernity. Despite their differences, each movement—feminism as a social movement, Islamism as an anti-systemic movement, and postmodernism as a movement of ideas—changed definitions and perceptions of woman, Islam and modernity.
In: The Middle East journal, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 46-58
ISSN: 0026-3141
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In: Public Culture, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 61-81
ISSN: 1527-8018
In: Varieties of World-MakingBeyond Globalization, S. 173-190
For many in the West, Islam has become a byword for 'terrorism'. From 9/11 to the Paris attacks, our headlines are dominated by images of violence and extremism. Now, as the Western world struggles to cope with the refugee crisis, there is a growing obsession with the issue of Muslim integration. Those Muslims who fail to assimilate are branded the 'enemy within', with their communities said to provide a fertile breeding ground for jihadists. Such narratives, though, fail to take into account the actual lives of most Muslims living in the West, fixating instead on a minority of violent extremists. In 'The Daily Lives of Muslims', Nilüfer Göle provides an urgently needed corrective to this distorted image of Islam. Engaging with Muslim communities in 21 cities across Europe where controversies over 'integration' have arisen - from the banning of the veil in France to debates surrounding Sharia law in the UK - the book brings the voices of this neglected majority into the debate. In doing so, Göle uncovers a sincere desire among many Muslims to participate in the public sphere, a desire which is too often stifled by Western insecurity and attempts to suppress the outward signs of religious difference
In: Wagenbachs Taschenbuch 598
In: Politik bei Wagenbach
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In: İstanbul Bilgi University Press
In: Sociology 2 = 124 [des Gesamtw.]
In: İstanbul Bilgi University Press 124
In: Sociology 2
In: Global, local Islam