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Samuel M. Behloul, Susanne Leuenberger, Andreas Tunger-Zanetti (eds.) Debating Islam global local Islam Samuel M. Behloul, Susanne Leuenberger, Andreas Tunger-Zanetti (eds.) Debating Islam Negotiating Religion, Europe, and the Self BBiibblliiooggrraapphhiicc iinnffoorrmmaattiioonn ppuubblliisshheedd bbyy tthhee DDeeuuttsscchhee NNaattiioonnaallbbiibblliiootthheekk The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Natio- nalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de ©© 22001133 ttrraannssccrriipptt VVeerrllaagg,, BBiieelleeffeelldd Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedoruti- lizedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknown or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any infor- mation storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover layout: Kordula Röckenhaus, Bielefeld Proofread & Typeset: Ursina Marty, Andreas Tunger-Zanetti, Saskia Weidmann, Diego Wider Printed by Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH, Wetzlar ISBN 978-3-8376-2249-2 Contents Foreword | 9 (cid:2) Introduction Samuel M. Behloul | 11 PART I Rules and roles Samuel M. Behloul | 39 (cid:2) Racial grammar and the green menace David Llewelyn Tyrer | 43 The ambiguity of law and Muslim debates (cid:2) about the contextualisation of Islam in France Frank Peter | 63 (cid:2) ‘Muslim women’ marking debates on Islam Amélie Barras | 81 Formatting Islam versus mobilising Islam in prison: Evidence from the Swiss case Mallory Schneuwly Purdie | 99 The politics of Sikh Islamophobia Katy P. Sian | 119 PART II The one facing the many Susanne Leuenberger | 137 Celtic ancestors and Muhammad’s legacy: (cid:2) Types of narratives in a convert’s construction of religiosity Petra Bleisch Bouzar | 141 The imagining of Muslim converts in Britain by themselves (cid:2) and others Leon Moosavi | 165 “I have become a stranger in my homeland”: An analysis of the public performance of converts to Islam (cid:2) in Switzerland Susanne Leuenberger | 181 Islamic fields and Muslim techniques of the self (cid:2) in a German context Jörn Thielmann | 203 PART III The many facing the ‘other’ (within) Andreas Tunger-Zanetti | 223 Institutionalised Austrian Islam: (cid:2) One institution representing the many Farid Hafez | 227 ‘We are in this together’: How the cartoon crisis changed relations between the Danish state (cid:2) and Muslim Danes Lene Kühle | 243 Basel’s ‘swimming refuseniks’: A systemic study on how politics observe Muslim claims (cid:2) to diversity in state schools Marius Rohrer | 263 ‘Against Islam, but not against Muslims’: (cid:2) Actors and attitudes in the Swiss minaret vote Andreas Tunger-Zanetti | 285 Protecting democracy, misrecognising Muslims? (cid:2) An assessment of Swiss integration policy Matteo Gianni | 313 EPILOGUE (cid:2) On relating religion to society and society to religion Reinhard Schulze | 333 Index | 357 Contributors | 369 Foreword In the last two decades, and with increased intensity since the key event of 9/11, Islam has become a dominant concern, structuring national debates on immigra- tion, integration, democracy, liberalism and secularism Europe-wide. Adapting an interdisciplinary outlook, this volume presents a comparative analysis of debates on Islam and Muslims in different West-European national contexts. Introducing Switzerland as an under-researched object of study to the academic discussion on Islam in Europe, this volume offers a fresh perspective by putting recent case studies from diverse national contexts together. We are interested in scrutinising both the specificity as well as the exemplary test-case nature of its trajectory in a European comparison. The research perspectives gathered together in this volume were largely developed in the course of the international conference “Debating Islam: Switzerland – Europe” held at the University of Berne during 29th of September to 1st of October 2011. It was organised co-operatively by a number of members of the SGMOIK (Schweizerische Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und islamische Kulturen) and the Groupe de recherche sur l’Islam en Suisse (GRIS), and was financially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Mittelbauvereinigung der Universität Bern (MVUB) as well as the Bernese Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (IASH). This volume consists of papers discussed during the conference, comple- mented by fresh contributions from interlocutors and discussants on questions also raised during the event. The overarching idea that informs this book project is to bring together case studies on various national Muslim debates and apply a comparative perspective on Europe and its specific perception of Islam. The chapters should allow to see similarities and differences between for example the Danish cartoon crisis and the Swiss anti-minaret campaign, or between the self-
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