• Books

    Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes

    by  • March 29, 2012 • Books, Discrimination and Xenophobia, General News, Immigration and Integration, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Publications, Security and Counterterrorism

    Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background, and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the US, have created a new research field investigating the way states and ordinary citizens react to these new phenomena. However, whilst we already know much about how Islam...

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    Dutch Version of Controversial Book on Early Islam Released

    by  • March 16, 2012 • Books, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Publications

    2 March 2012   The Fourth Beast, a book by British historian Tom Holland making controversial claims about the origins and development of Islam, has been released in a Dutch translation, though in advance of the English publication. According to an article in Radio Netherlands Worldwide the book’s potentially controversial claims include: that Islam...

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    New Book: Jennifer Selby, “Questioning French Secularism”

    by  • March 12, 2012 • Books, Gender Issues and the Hijab/Burqa, Publications

    Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of Muslim women’s rights. Selby analyzes public discourses on secularism in France to consider how Islam becomes subsumed under the fetishized headscarf, how women’s bodies come to represent collective identities, and how the activism and engagement...

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