French Muslims in Perspective Nationalism, Post-Colonialism and Marginalisation under the Republic /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Downing, Joseph (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Islam.; Political sociology.; Ethnicity.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; France-Politics and government.; Political Sociology.; Ethnicity Studies.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; French Politics.

With the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, France has faced a number of critiques in its attempts to assimilate Muslims into an ostensibly secular (but predominantly Catholic) state and society. This book challenges traditional analyses that emphasise the conflict between Muslims and the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introducing 'French Muslims' and Banality: Beyond Essentialism, Exceptionalism and Saslaciousness
• 2. Many Republics, Many Solitudes: Europeanisation, Politics, Islam, Ethnicity and the State in France
• 3. Liberating France from Fascism and Upholding Civil Liberties: French Muslims Soldiering and Policing for the Republic
• 4. Confronting Orientalism, Colonialism and Determinism: Deconstructing Contemporary French Jihadism
• 5. Gender, Orientalism and Muslims in France: Culture, Masculinity, Violence and Sexuality
• 6. The Cultural Paradoxes of Frenchness: Cultural Nationalism, Social Boundaries and French Muslims in Broader Discursive Perspective
• 7. Conclusions on French Muslims. .