Welfare Activities by New Religious Actors Islamic Organisations in Italy and Switzerland /

• Main Author: Banfi, Elisa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
• Subjects: Welfare state.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Political sociology.; Europe-Politics and government.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Political Sociology.; European Politics.

This book offers a comparative examination of Islamic welfare activities across urban areas in both Switzerland and Italy, in order to address general issues relating to the welfare engagement of Islamic organisations in Europe. Welfare Activities by New Religious Actors describes how Islamic organi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Analysing Islamic Welfare Activism in Western European Countries
• 3. Islamic Sociocultural Activism in Zurich
• 4. Islamic Sociocultural Activism in Rome
• 5. Islamic Sociocultural Activism in Geneva
• 6. Islamic Sociocultural Activism in Milan.-7.Intranational and Cross-National Data Analysis
• 8. Conclusion.