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Legal Integration of Islam : A Transatlantic Comparison.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674074910
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Legal Integration of IslamDDC classification:
  • 340.9094
LOC classification:
  • K236
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Neutrality, Liberalism, and Islam Integration in Europe and America -- Western Europe -- 2. Limits of Excluding: The French Burqa Law of 2010 -- 3. Limits of Including: The German Reluctance to "Cooperate" with Organized Islam -- North America -- 4. "Reasonable Accommodation" and the Limits of Multiculturalism in Canada -- 5. The Dog That Didn't Bark: Islam and Religious Pluralism in the United States -- 6. Conclusion: Islam and Identity in the Liberal State -- Notes -- Court Cases -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Christian Joppke and John Torpey show how four liberal democracies--France, Germany, Canada, and the U.S.--have responded to the challenge of integrating Muslim populations. Demonstrating the centrality of the legal system to this process, they argue that institutional barriers to integration are no greater on one side of the Atlantic than the other.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Neutrality, Liberalism, and Islam Integration in Europe and America -- Western Europe -- 2. Limits of Excluding: The French Burqa Law of 2010 -- 3. Limits of Including: The German Reluctance to "Cooperate" with Organized Islam -- North America -- 4. "Reasonable Accommodation" and the Limits of Multiculturalism in Canada -- 5. The Dog That Didn't Bark: Islam and Religious Pluralism in the United States -- 6. Conclusion: Islam and Identity in the Liberal State -- Notes -- Court Cases -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Christian Joppke and John Torpey show how four liberal democracies--France, Germany, Canada, and the U.S.--have responded to the challenge of integrating Muslim populations. Demonstrating the centrality of the legal system to this process, they argue that institutional barriers to integration are no greater on one side of the Atlantic than the other.

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