European Muslims and the Secular State.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface by Seán McLoughlin -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I Secularity in Europe and the Institutionalization of Islam: Legal Regulation and Political Recognition -- 1 The Secularity of the State and the Shaping of Muslim Representative Organizations in Western Europe -- 2 Discrimination and Claims for Equal Rights Amongst Muslims in Europe -- 3 Islam, Secularism and Multiculturalism After 9/11: A Transatlantic Comparison -- Section II The State, Civil Society and Muslim Leaderships: Contested Representations of Islam in Europe -- 4 The State, New Muslim Leaderships and Islam as a Resource for Public Engagement in Britain -- 5 Religious Authorities or Political Actors? The Muslim Leaders of the French Representative Body of Islam -- 6 Interests, Identities, and the Public Sphere: Representing Islam in the Netherlands since the 1980s -- 7 New Modes of Social Interaction in Italy: Muslim Leaders and Local Society in Tuscany and Venetia -- 8 From 'Foreign Workers' to 'Sleepers': The Churches, the State and Germany's 'Discovery' of its Muslim Population -- Section III Practising Islam in Secular Contexts: Authority, Religiosity and Identity -- 9 Migration and the Religiosity of Muslim Women in Spain -- 10 Individualizing Faith, Individualizing Identity: Islam and Young Muslim Women in Belgium -- 11 The Quest for Authenticity: Islamization Amongst Muslim Youth in Norway -- 12 The Transformation of a Sufi Order into a Lay Community: The Süleymanci Movement in Germany and Beyond -- 13 Locating the British Imam: The Deobandi 'Ulama between Contested Authority and Public Policy Post-9/11 -- Index.

This volume explores current interactions between Muslims and the more or less secularized public spaces of several European states, assessing the challenges such interactions imply for both Muslims and the societies in which they now live.

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