Frank Peter

Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France (eBook, PDF)

Secularism without Religion

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Will Islam be able to adapt to France's secularity and its strict separation of public and private spheres? Can France accommodate Muslims? In this book, Frank Peter argues that the debate about "Islam" and "Muslims" is not simply caused by ignorance or Islamophobia. Rather, it is an integral part of how secularism is reasoned.
Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France shows that understanding religion as separate from other aspects of life, such as politics, economy, and culture, disregards the ways religion has operated and been managed in "secular" societies such as France. This book uncovers the varying rationalities of the secular that have developed over the past few decades in France to "govern Islam," in order to examine how Muslims engage with the secular regime and contribute to its transformation.
This book offers a close analysis of French secularism as it has been debated by Islamic intellectuals and activists from the 1990s until the present. It will influence the study of secularism as well as the study of Islam in the French Republic, and reveal new connections between Islamic traditions and secular rationalities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350067912
• Artikelnr.: 61090110

Autorenporträt

Frank Peter is Research Associate at the Centre for Islam and Law in Europe at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Reconstructing the discursive context of secularism
2 The social Republic
3 Rationalizing integration
4 Islam and society: entwinement and separation
5 Teaching freedom
6 "The history of some is not the history of others"
7 Islam and fiction beyond freedom of speech
8 Islamophobia and the critique of integration
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index