Islam and Secular Citizenship in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and France – Carolina Ivanescu
Author: Carolina Ivanescu
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Print Length: 244 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Religious Studies, Non-Fiction / Social Science, Non-Fiction / Sociology
Area: France, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom (UK)
Topic: Citizenship, Islam, Islamic Studies / Theology, Ethics and Philosophy, Migrants, Nation, Religion, Religious Thoughts & Philosophy, Secularism
The past several years have seen many examples of friction between secular European societies and religious migrant communities within them. This study combines ethnographic work in three countries (The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France) with a new theoretical frame (regimes of secularity). Its mission is to contribute to an understanding of minority identity construction in secular societies. In addition to engaging with academic literature and ethnographic research, the book takes a critical look at three cities, three nation-contexts, and three grassroots forms of Muslim religious collective organization, comparing and contrasting them from a historical perspective.
Carolina Ivanescu offers a thorough theoretical grounding and tests existing theories empirically. Beginning from the idea that religion and citizenship are both crucial aspects of the state’s understanding of Muslim identities, she demonstrates the relevance of collective identification processes that are articulated through belonging to geographical and ideological entities. These forms of collective identification and minority management, Ivanescu asserts, are configuring novel possibilities for the place of religion in the modern social world.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I The Imaginary
Chapter 2 Secularization, Secularity, and the Secular: Religion and Its Place in Social Life
Part II The Symbolic
Chapter 3 Nation, Citizenship, and Religious Migrants
Part III The Real
Chapter 4 Rotterdam—Politicized Religion
Chapter 5 Leicester—Civic Religion
Chapter 6 Marseille—Symbolic Religion
Chapter 7 Comparing Regimes of Secularity, Citizenships, and Fields of Muslimness
Chapter 8 Concluding Reflections
Annex 1
Annex 2
Bibliography
Index
Carolina Ivanescu obtained her Master’s degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Romanian Philology at the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. For her Cultural Anthropology degree she has conducted fieldwork in Tibetan communities living in exile in India and Nepal, working as a volunteer for Gyudmed Tantric College Dharamsala and the Tibetan Library of Works and Archives. Subsequently she moved to the Netherlands where she completed a Research Master in the Social Sciences at the International School for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam. For her MSc degree she conducted research on the sartorial preferences of Pakistani young women in the Netherlands. While in the second year of her Research Master she started her doctoral studies at the Department of Sociology of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. During her doctoral years she has been part of the chair Citizenship and Identity, a cooperation between the City of Rotterdam and the Erasmus University. She has also been involved in the supervision and teaching of students and has been a member of the research group CIMIC. While finalizing her dissertation, she has worked as an academic researcher on the European integration Fund financed project IMPACIM shared between the Sociology and the Public Administration departments of Erasmus University Rotterdam. At present Carolina is Lecturer in Religion and Society at the Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam.
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