1st Edition

Racialization and Religion Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia

Edited By Nasar Meer Copyright 2014
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This volume locates the contemporary study of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia squarely within the fields of race and racism. As such, it challenges the extent to which discussion of the racialization of these minorities remains unrelated to each other, or is explored in distinct silos as a series of internal debates. By harnessing the explanatory power of long-established organizing concepts... Read more

Introduction: Racialization and religion: race, culture and difference in the study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia Nasar Meer

1. Faith, culture and fear: comparing Islamophobia in early modern Spain and twenty-first-century Europe François Soyer

2. ‘Islamophobia never stands still’: race, religion, and culture Raymond Taras

3. Anti-Semitism in Britain: continuity and the absence of a resurgence? Tony Kushner

4. Folk devils and racist imaginaries in a global prism: Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the twenty-first century Pnina Werbner

5. Interrogating ‘new anti-Semitism’ Brian Klug

6. A rhetorical discourse analysis of online anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic jokes Simon Weaver

7. Semantics, scales and solidarities in the study of antisemitism and Islamophobia Nasar Meer

Biography

Dr Nasar Meer is a Reader and co-Director of the Centre for Civil Society and Citizenship, in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK.