Muslims and the state in Britain, France, and Germany /
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| Author / Creator: | Fetzer, Joel S. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11831268 |
| Summary: | Over ten million Muslims live in Western Europe. Since the early 1990s, and especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, vexing policy questions have emerged about the religious rights of native-born and immigrant Muslims. Britain has struggled over whether to give state funding to private Islamic schools. France has been convulsed over Muslim teenagers wearing the hijab in public schools. Germany has debated whether to grant 'public-corporation' status to Muslims. And each state is searching for policies to ensure the successful incorporation of practicing Muslims into liberal democratic society. This 2004 book analyzes state accommodation of Muslims' religious practices in Britain, France, and Germany, first examining three major theories: resource mobilization, political-opportunity structure, and ideology. It then proposes an additional explanation, arguing that each nation's approach to Muslims follows from its historically based church-state institutions. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-198) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511790973 051179097X 051123161X 9780511231612 0521828309 9780521828307 0521535395 9780521535397 1107160235 9781107160231 1280702087 9781280702082 0511230842 9780511230844 0511229224 9780511229220 0511327390 9780511327391 0511230060 9780511230066 |