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Informationen zum Autor Olivier Roy is research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and lectures at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris. His books with Columbia University Press include The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East ; Globalized Islam ; and, with Amel Boubekeur, Whatever Happened to the Islamists? Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims, and the Lure of Consumerist Islam . Klappentext The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French-and, consequently, secular and liberal-society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a "true believer." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society. Zusammenfassung The denunciation of Islamic fundamentalism has slowly evolved into an attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into secular and liberal society. However! as Olivier Roy makes clear! Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a "true believer." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society.Western society is unable to recognize this process! Roy argues! because it assumes religious practice is embedded within a specific! traditional culture. Instead! Roy shows that new forms of religiosity! such as Islamic fundamentalism and Christian evangelicalism! have come to thrive in posttraditional! secular contexts precisely because they remain detached from any cultural background. In recognizing this! Roy recasts the debate concerning Islam and democracy. He distinguishes between Arab and non-Arab Muslims! hegemony and tolerance! and the role of the umma and the sharia in Muslim religious life. Supporting his arguments with extensive research! Roy demonstrates the limits of our understanding of contemporary Islamic religious practice and the role of Islam as a screen onto which Western societies have projected their own identity crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Laïcité and the Identity of France 1. French Laïcité and Islam: Which Is the Exception? 2. Islam and Secularization 3. The Crisis of the Secular State and the New Forms of Religiosity 4. De Facto Secularization Notes Index...
