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List of contents
Introduction: Islam and space in Europe: the politics of race, time, and secularism PART I: Governing space: state interventions and Islamic practices 1. State, space and secularism: towards a critical study of governing religion 2. Choreographies of public space: race, religion and urban regimes 3. Islam, locality and trust: making Muslim spaces in the Netherlands PART II: Islam and institutions: spatial configurations of the secular and the religious 4. EUrope in focus: Imperial formations in the fabric of the European Union 5. “The Muslims are taking over”: the politics of space and geopolitical and national imaginaries in an English prison 6. Establishing a Waqf: space and the study of Islam PART III: Performance and space: subjectivity, contestation and embodiment 7. Pietaskscapes of halal living: subjectivity, striving, and spacemaking in Muslim Russia 8. Spatial performances of gender, Islam and the “secular”: Muslim girls’ playing football in Dutch public playgrounds 9. Mobilizing Karbala: sonic remediations in Berlin Ashura processions Afterword on Islam and space in Europe: the dynamism of a field
About the author
C.J.J. Moses has a PhD in the Anthropology of Religion from the University of Cambridge.
Tobias Müller is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Research Fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg.
Adela Taleb is a PhD candidate at the Institute for European Ethnology of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Summary
This book advocates for an analytical turn in the study of Islam in Europe by using space as a central conceptual lens. It argues that the critical potential of a spatialized analysis in the field of Islam in Europe remains largely unexplored.
