The Headscarf Controversy - Secularism and Freedom of Religion

Informationen zum Autor Visiting Distinguished Professor, Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Klappentext Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the escalating controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves. Examining legal and political debates in Turkey, several European countries including France and Germany, and the United States, Elver shows the troubling exclusion of pious Muslim women from the public sphere in the name of secularism, democracy, liberalism, and women's rights.

Product details

• Authors: Hilal Elver
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.03.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9780199769292
• ISBN: 978-0-19-976929-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Religion and Global Politics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions