Overview
In Islam and Secularity Nilufer Goele takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Goele 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 which play out in embodied and aesthetic practices and are accompanied by fear, anxiety, and violence. In this timely book, Goele illuminates the recent rethinking of secularism and religion, of modernity and resistance to it, of the public significance of sexuality, and of the shifting terrain of identity in contemporary Europe.
Full Product Details
Author: Nilüfer Göle ,
Nileufer Geole
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780822359555
ISBN 10: 0822359553
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 23 October 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The secular is never neutral, but it has been deployed in particularly challenging ways in relation to Islam. Nilufer Gole's discussion in Islam and Secularity takes up the shifting projects and stances that shape this relationship, especially in Turkey and France, but in ways that are of global significance. --Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science
The secular is never neutral, but it has been deployed in particularly challenging ways in relation to Islam. Nilufer Gole's discussion in Islam and Secularity takes up the shifting projects and stances that shape this relationship, especially in Turkey and France but in ways that are of global significance. --Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science
Nilufer Gole's insistence on the 'interpenetration' of Muslim and European experience is a major contribution, offering incisive theoretical formulations. In explicating the mutual interactions and transformations that arise from the conflicts and anxieties that accompany the proximity of Islam within Europe, she comments in new and insightful ways about Muslim/European relations. Gole is a major thinker who deserves more prominence. -- Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study The secular is never neutral, but it has been deployed in particularly challenging ways in relation to Islam. Nilufer Gole's discussion in Islam and Secularity takes up the shifting projects and stances that shape this relationship, especially in Turkey and France, but in ways that are of global significance. -- Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science
Author Information
NilÜfer GÖle is Professor of Sociology at the Centre d'Études Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). She is the author of Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism and editor of Islam and Public Controversy in Europe.
