Islam and Secularity - The Future of Europe''s Public Sphere

Informationen zum Autor Nilüfer Göle Klappentext Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Centre d'Études Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). She is the author of Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism and editor of Islam and Public Controversy in Europe.¿ Zusammenfassung In Islam and Secularity Nilufer Gole examines the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. She demonstrates that Islam and secularism are mutually constitutive, constantly changing, and that the presence of Islam unsettles dominant narratives of Western modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix 1. Public Sphere beyond Religious-Secular Dichotomies  1 2. Secular Modernity in Question  31 3. Religious-Secular Frontiers: State, Public Sphere, and the Self  53 4. Web of Secular Power: Civilization, Space, and Sexuality  73 5. The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere  103 6. Public Islam: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries  135 7. Public Culture, Art, and Islam: Turkish-Delight in Vienna  161 8. Europe's Trouble with Islam: What Future?  193 Notes  227 Bibliography  243 Index  257

Product details

• Authors: Nileufer Geole, Nilufer Goele, Nilufer Gole, Nilüfer Göle
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780822359555
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5955-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Public Planet Books; Public Planet Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education