Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims ：Islam in the Plural ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Islam in the Plural

Publication series ：1

Author： Flood Christopher;Hutchings Stephen;Miazhevich Galina

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9789004231030

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004231023

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9789004231023

Subject： B968 Analysis and study of Islam

Keyword：宗教

Language： ENG

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Description

At a time of tension between some Muslim and non-Muslim countries, accompanied by frictions between Muslim and non-Muslim majorities or minorities within states, this collection centres on the often distorted perceptions underlying public debates over collective identities and cultures.

Chapter

Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. Uncovering an Islamic Paradigm of International Relations

2. Representation and Self-Representation of Radical Islamism in the UK: Through the Mirroring Lens of the Political Self

3. Why Wear a Headscarf in Parliament? Danish Secularist, Nationalist and Feminist Ideas about Muslims

4. “People Think Our Lives Are Dark.” Diasporic Resistance to the Metaphoric Darkening of Female Muslim Identity

5. Reason, Passion, and Islam: The Impact of Emotionality and Values on Political Tolerance

6. Islamophobia and Turcoscepticism in Europe? A Four-Nation Study

7. Representing Gender, Defining Muslims? Gender and Figures of Otherness in Public Discourse in Switzerland

8. The French Anti-Racist Movement and the ‘Muslim Question’

9. Foreign Policy and Its Impact on Arab Stereotypes in English-Language Popular Fiction of the 1970s–80s

10. Exploring Anwar: Religion, Identity and Nationalism

11. Curating against Dissent: Museums and the Public Debate on Islam

References

Index

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