Gebundenes Buch

Islam and Muslims in Germany

Beschreibung

In the European discourse of post 9/11 reality, concepts such as "Multiculturalism", "Integration" and "European Islam" are becoming more and more topical. The empirically- based contributions in this volume aim to reflect the variety of current Muslim social practices and life-worlds in Germany. The volume goes beyond the fragmented methods of minority case studies and the monolithic view of Muslims as portrayed by mass media to present fresh theoretical approaches and in-depth analyses of a rich mosaic of communities, cultures and social practices. Issues of politics, religion, society, economics, media, art, literature, law and gender are addressed. The result is a vibrant state-of-the-art publication of studies of real-life communities and individuals.

Contributors are Kilian Bälz, Kea Eilers, Friedmann Eissler, Konrad Hirschler, Jeanette S. Jouili, Melanie Kamp, Matthias Kulinna, Judith Pies, Claudia Preckel, Robert Pütz, Mathias Rohe, Sabine Schiffer, Verena Schreiber, Christoph Schumann , Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Clara Seitz, Faruk Sen, Viola Shafik, Yafa Shanneik, Martin Sökefeld, Margrete Søvik, Levent Tezcan, Jörn Thielmann, Nikola Tietze and Maria Wurm.

Autor

Ala Al-Hamarneh, Ph.D. in human geography (1994), is assistant professor in human geography and a researcher in the Center for Research on the Arab World at the University of Mainz. Issues of migration, poverty, globalization of services and cinematic geo-hermeneutics are in the centre of his academic research. Jörn Thielmann, Ph.D. (2001) in Islamic Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, is since 2009 Executive Director of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is particulary interested in the anthropology of Islam and in Islamic normativities in a transnational context.

Produktdetails

• Muslim Minorities Vol.7
• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 612
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 174mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1126g
• ISBN-13: 9789004158665
• ISBN-10: 9004158669
• Artikelnr.: 23166325

Rezensionen

Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner, December 2008.

Readable and authoritative chapters on prayer leaders, the legal status of Islamic contracts, the growing importance since the 1980s of identity politics, gender issues, South Asian Muslims, pop music, language and educational issues, Muslims as consumers, and how Muslims are portrayed in the German media make this book a must for anyone interested in the changing face of Islam in Germany today. D.F. Eickelman,CHOICE , 2008

Together the chapters provide a broad and interesting overview over many important aspects of the dynamic process in which Muslims and Islam are becoming a part of German society. Af Heiko Henkel, Tidsskrift for Islamforskning , 2010