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Rethinking Islam and Space in Europe: The Politics of Race, Time and Secularism book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Islam and Space in Europe The Politics of Race, Time and Secularism

Edited By C.J.J. Moses, Tobias Müller, Adela Taleb Copyright 2023
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge
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The role of Islam in public spaces is one of the most prevalent political questions in Europe. Contestations around the construction of mosques, the ban of Islamic veils and populist rhetoric about “problematic” neighbourhoods indicate Europe’s struggles with the place of its second largest religion. This book advocates for an analytical turn in the study of Islam in Europe using space as a... Read more

Introduction: Islam and space in Europe: the politics of race, time, and secularism

Tobias Müller, Adela Taleb and C. J. J. Moses

PART I: Governing space: state interventions and Islamic practices

1. State, space and secularism: towards a critical study of governing religion

Tobias Müller

2. Choreographies of public space: race, religion and urban regimes

Mar Griera and Marian Burchardt

3. Islam, locality and trust: making Muslim spaces in the Netherlands

Thijl Sunier

PART II: Islam and institutions: spatial configurations of the secular and the religious

4. EUrope in focus: Imperial formations in the fabric of the European Union

Adela Taleb

5. “The Muslims are taking over”: the politics of space and geopolitical and national imaginaries in an English prison

Ryan Williams

6. Establishing a Waqf: space and the study of Islam

C. J. J. Moses

PART III: Performance and space: subjectivity, contestation and embodiment

7. Pietaskscapes of halal living: subjectivity, striving, and spacemaking in Muslim Russia

Matteo (Teo) Benussi

8. Spatial performances of gender, Islam and the “secular”: Muslim girls’ playing football in Dutch public playgrounds

Kathrine van den Bogert

9. Mobilizing Karbala: sonic remediations in Berlin Ashura processions

Peter McMurray

Afterword on Islam and space in Europe: the dynamism of a field

Kim Knott

Biography

C.J.J. Moses has a PhD in the Anthropology of Religion from the University of Cambridge.

Tobias Müller is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Research Fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg.

Adela Taleb is a PhD candidate at the Institute for European Ethnology of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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