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"This chapter claims that there is a new social and political phenomenon in Europe, which comes into force along with the visibility of Islam in the public space. It argues that there are two simultaneously running processes regarding the changing nature of Euro-Islam, which seem to be antithetical: individualization of Islam versus institutionalization of Islam. The underlying assumption of the work is that while the processes of globalization seem to prompt younger generations with Muslim background, in particular 'Türkiyeli', to liberate themselves from the constraints of their patriarchal parental and community culture, western states as well as ethno-cultural and religious brokers tend to reify, or reinforce, the existing communal and religious boundaries. That is to say that the descendants of migrants seem to be torn between individualization and institutionalization of Islam. The chapter focuses on the ways in which Islam has recently been accommodated by the state in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland." (author's abstract)

Turkey has gone through an enormous process of change in the last decade, especially regarding the political recognition of ethno-cultural and religiously diverse groups. The term "diversity" has become one of the catch words of contemporary political philosophy. Diversity, in its recent forms, whether cultural, political, ethnic, or religious, is a byproduct of globalization. Globalization has made the movements of persons or groups in the ethnoscape easier. It is apparent that the management of diversity has posed a great challenge for nation states as well as for the international and supranational organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union (EU).