Muslims in Europe

From the Margin to the Centre

• Author(s): Jamal Malik,
• Publisher: Lit
• Pages: 260
• ISBN_10: 3825876381
  ISBN_13: 9783825876388
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / General , Social Science / Sociology of Religion , Social Science / Islamic Studies , Social Science / Jewish Studies ,

Description:... This volume embodies an up-to-date and sensitive set of studies exploring the ongoing negotiation of European Muslim identities in Europe. The book argues there has been hitherto a three-fold response on the part of Muslims in Europe (some of whom are now third generation Europeans) - integrationism, isolationism, and escapism. Today the latter two responses are giving way, it is argued, to an active shaping of Muslim European identities. The central issue remains: what degree of freedom and what potential for cultural and religious diversity can minorities have in an outwardly secular and plural European society?