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The imaginery -- Secularization, secularity, and the secular: religion and its place in social life -- The symbolic -- Nation, citizenship, and religious migrants -- The real -- Rotterdam, politicized religion -- Leicester, civic religion -- Marseille, symbolic religion -- Comparing regimes of secularity, citizenships and fields of Muslimness -- Concluding reflections

Cuando la religión se convierte en parte integrante de los debates políticos modernos, las ideas religiosas influyen en las decisiones y definiciones de conceptos como la educación, la participación en el mercado laboral, la estructura y función de la familia como unidad social y la igualdad. La integración y la inmigración pasan a primer plano a medida que el concepto de ciudadanía adquiere dimensiones culturalistas y moralizantes. Finalmente, religión, política y educación se interfieren en las áreas de la vida que pertenecen a la esfera privada y pública. Desde nuestra perspectiva pedagógica, entendemos que las líneas educativas marcadas por la religión influyen notablemente en el devenir de muchos ciudadanos y se incrustan en el foro político-social. Así nos encontramos que la religión como poderoso instrumento de socialización ejerce una gran influencia intencionada en la educación y valores de los ciudadanos y se configura como el currículo social, normalmente oculto, del contexto próximo de muchos ciudadanos. La presencia del Islam y los musulmanes en Europa, aunque no es un fenómeno nuevo, es cuestionada por los Estados-nación confrontando el currículo oficial, la educación reglada, con el currículo social, muy influido por el Islam entre sus fieles. De esta manera se convierte en parte integrante de la lucha por la identidad nacional individual y colectiva, ya sea en lo referente al laicismo, la democracia o ciudadanía. Y en este sentido, queremos aportar una revisión actualizada de esta cuestión tan presente en Europa. ; When religion is converted in an integral part of modern political debates, religious ideas influence the decisions and definitions of concepts such as education, the participation in the labor market, the structure and function of the family as a social unit, and the equality. Integration and immigration come to the forefront as the concept of citizenship acquires culturalist and moralizing dimensions. Finally, religion, politics and education begin to interfere in the areas of life that belong to the private and public spheres. From our pedagogical perspective we understand that the educational lines marked by religion influence remarkably the future of many citizens, and attach themselves to the social-political realm. We thus become aware of the fact that religion as a powerful instrument of socialization exerts a strong influence upon citizens' education and values, and presents itself as the - normally hidden - social curriculum of the context closer to many citizens. The presence of Islam and of Muslims in Europe, though not a new phenomenon, is questioned by the nation-states, confronting the official curriculum and the regulated education, with the social curriculum, strongly influenced by Islam among its followers. It therefore converts itself in an integral part of the struggle for individual and collective national identity, be it with respect to laity, to democracy or to citizenship. And, in this sense, we would like to present an up-to-date review of this question so present in Europe today.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- 1. Introduction -- Part One. Laying foundations: national and local elections -- 2. Muslim political participation in Belgium: an exceptional political representation in Europe -- 3. Muslim political participation in Germany: a structurationist approach -- 4. Political opinions and participation among young Muslims in Sweden: a case study -- 5. Lithuanian Muslims' attitudes toward participation in the democratic political process: the case of converts -- 6. Political participation of European Muslims in France and the United Kingdom -- Part Two. Participation as integration -- 7. Muslim collective mobilisations in contemporary Europe: new issues and new types of involvement -- 8. How politically integrated are Danish Muslims? Evidence from the Muhammad cartoons controversy -- 9. Limits and potentialities of the Italian and British political systems through the lens of Muslim women in politics -- 10. Representing 'Islam of the banlieues': class and political participation among Muslims in France -- Part Three. Institutions as gateways -- 11. Creating the image of European Islam: the European Council for Fatwa and Research and Ireland -- 12. The political participation of Polish Muslim Tatars - the result of or the reason for integration? From Teutonic wars to the Danish cartoons affair -- 13. The Alevi quest in Europe through the redefinition of the Alevi movement: recognition and political participation, a case study of the FUAF in France -- 14. Leicester Muslims: citizenship, race and civil religion -- Part Four. Breaking the bounds -- 15. Muslims and electoral politics in Britain: the case of the Respect Party -- 16. Clichés are funny as long as they happen on stage: comedy as political criticism -- Notes on the contributors -- Index