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  • Producing Islam(s) in Canada

    On Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics

    Edited by Amélie Barras, Jennifer A. Selby, Melanie Adrian ...
    During the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially. In parallel, the study of Islam in the Canadian academy has grown in a number of fields since the 1970s, reflecting a diverse range of scholarship, positionalities, and politics. Yet, academic research on Muslims in Canada has not been systematically ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Religious Freedom at Risk

    The EU, French Schools, and Why the Veil was Banned

    by Melanie Adrian ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines matters of religious freedom in Europe, considers the work of the European Court of Human Rights in this area, explores issues of multiculturalism and secularism in France, of women in Islam, and of Muslims in the West. The work presents legal analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on concepts such as laïcité, submission, equality and the role of the state in public ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Muslim Diaspora

    Gender, Culture and Identity

    Edited by Haideh Moghissi ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country.The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. They show how religious identity in diaspora is mediated by ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond

    Edited by Paul Bramadat, Lorne Dawson ...
    After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the “Toronto 18,” Canadians have changed how they think about terrorism and security. As governments respond to the potential threat of homegrown radicalism, many observers have become concerned about the impact of those security measures on the minority groups whose lives are “securitized.”In Religious ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Countering Violent Extremism

    The International Deradicalization Agenda

    by Tahir Abbas ...
    Terrorism, radicalization and violent extremism dominate sociological, political and cultural concerns in today's polarized social and political world. However, the role of governments and issues relating to state terrorism and the counter-terror state remain important considerations. This book presents an understanding of the concept of Countering Violent Extremism from a critical terrorism ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Canadian Islamic Schools

    Unravelling the Politics of Faith, Gender, Knowledge, and Identity

    by Jasmin Zine ...
    Religious schooling in Canada has been a controversial subject since the secularization of the public school system, but there has been little scholarship on Islamic education. In this ethnographic study of four full-time Islamic schools, Jasmin Zine explores the social, pedagogical, and ideological functions of these alternative, and religiously-based educational institutions. Based on eighteen ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Islam and Secularity

    The Future of Europe's Public Sphere

    by Nilüfer Göle ...
    Series series Public Planet Books
    In Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Göle shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public sphere unsettles narratives of Western secularism. As mutually constitutive, Islam and secularism permeate each other, the effects of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Sexuality in Muslim Contexts

    Restrictions and Resistance

    Edited by Anissa Helie, Homa Hoodfar ...
    This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Transnational Muslim Politics

    Reimagining the Umma

    by Peter G. Mandaville ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    This book analyzes Islam as a form of 'travelling theory' in the context of contemporary global transformations such as diasporic communities, transnational social movements, global cities and information technologies. Peter Mandaville examines how 'globalization' is manifested as lived experience through a discussion of debates over the meaning of Muslim identity, political community and the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • On Shifting Ground

    Muslim Women in the Global Era

    Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone ...
    "Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women" (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Men in Charge?

    Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition

    by Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Jana Rumminger ...
    Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic, and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic law, and since the late 19th century there has been a mass of literature tackling this issue.Recently, exciting new feminist research ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Pious Practice and Secular Constraints

    Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe

    by Jeanette S. Jouili ...
    The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has provoked public anxiety. New government regulations seek not only to restrict Islamic practices within the public sphere, but also to shape Muslims', and especially women's, personal conduct. Pious Practice and Secular Constraints chronicles the everyday ethical struggles of women active in orthodox and socially ... Read more

    $26.29 USD