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  • The Politics of Secularism

    Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey

    by Murat Akan ...
    Series Book 41 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Discussions of modernity—or alternative and multiple modernities—often hinge on the question of secularism, especially how it travels outside its original European context. Too often, attempts to answer this question either imagine a universal model derived from the history of Western Europe, which neglects the experience of much of the world, or emphasize a local, non-European context that limits ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Secularism

    Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey

    by Murat Akan ...
    Series Book 41 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Discussions of modernity—or alternative and multiple modernities—often hinge on the question of secularism, especially how it travels outside its original European context. Too often, attempts to answer this question either imagine a universal model derived from the history of Western Europe, which neglects the experience of much of the world, or emphasize a local, non-European context that limits ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Politics of the Veil

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    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

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  • Duress

    Imperial Durabilities in Our Times

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing "colonial presence" may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial ... Read more

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  • Muslim Diaspora

    Gender, Culture and Identity

    Edited by Haideh Moghissi ...
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  • The Courage of Hopelessness

    A Year of Acting Dangerously

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles—and asks whether radical change is possibleIn these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted ... Read more

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  • Islam in Liberalism

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  • Why the French Don't Like Headscarves

    Islam, the State, and Public Space

    by John R. Bowen ...
    The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in poor suburbs to anti-Semitism. Why the French Don't Like ... Read more

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