Islamophobia in the West (eBook, ePUB)

Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes
Redaktion: Helbling, Marc

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With contributions by leading researchers from many countries in Western Europe and North America, this book brings a new, transatlantic perspective to this growing field and establishes an important basis for further research in the area. It addresses several essential questions about Islamophobia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136900792
• Artikelnr.: 38278318

Autorenporträt

Marc Helbling is Head of the research group 'Immigration Policies in Comparison' (IMPIC) at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany. His recent publications include Restructuring Political Conflict in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011, with Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande et al.) and Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood: Naturalisations in Swiss Municipalities (Amsterdam University Press, 2008). He has also published articles in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Islamophobia in the West: An Introduction Part 1: How to Measure
Islamophobia 2. Prejudice Against Muslims: Associations with Personality
Traits and Political Attitudes Part 2: The Scope of Islamophobia: Public
Debates, Attitudes and Reactions 3. Assessing Islamophobia in Britain:
Where Do Muslims Really Stand? 4. Attitudes toward Muslims in Norway 5.
Islamophobia in Sweden: Politics, Representations, Attitudes and
Experiences 6. Islamophobia in Spain? Political Rhetoric Rather Than a
Social Fact Part 3: How To Explain Islamophobia 7. An Ecological Analysis
of the 2009 Swiss Referendum on the Building of Minarets 8. Islamophobia
and Its Explanation 9. The Aftermath of 9/11: Tolerance towards Muslims,
Islamophobia and Value Orientations 10. Political Tolerance for Muslim
Practices: An Intergroup Perspective 11. Revisiting Islamophobia in
Contemporary Britain, 2007-10 Part 4: Are Muslims Different From Other
Outgroups? Ethnocentrism and Terrorism 12. Islamophobia and the Band of
Others 13. Think 'Terrorist', Think 'Muslim'? Social-Psychological
Mechanisms Explaining Anti-Islamic Prejudice