Description
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.
About the Author
Nilufer Goele is Professor of Sociology at the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes 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.
Reviews
"Once again, then, Goele attends simultaneously to the asymmetries of power and the dynamics of reinvention-the hallmark more generally of this readable, analytically complex, and timely new book." -- Mayanthi Fernando * Reading Religion *
"Goele's contributions are manifold. . . . This work is a must-read for a graduate seminar on the topic. It is highly recommended for both researchers and nonprofessionals." -- Hakan Erdagoez * Sociology of Religion *
"Islam and Secularity makes for very rewarding and stimulating reading. It is exceptionally well suited to relocate debates about European secularity and Islam into global and historical perspectives. Concise and clearly written, the book is packed with wide-ranging arguments that will challenge the reader on many levels and with fascinating case studies." -- Frank Peter * Journal of Islamic Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822359982
Author Nilufer Goele
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 318g
About the Author
Nilufer Goele is Professor of Sociology at the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes 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.
Reviews
"Once again, then, Goele attends simultaneously to the asymmetries of power and the dynamics of reinvention-the hallmark more generally of this readable, analytically complex, and timely new book." -- Mayanthi Fernando * Reading Religion *
"Goele's contributions are manifold. . . . This work is a must-read for a graduate seminar on the topic. It is highly recommended for both researchers and nonprofessionals." -- Hakan Erdagoez * Sociology of Religion *
"Islam and Secularity makes for very rewarding and stimulating reading. It is exceptionally well suited to relocate debates about European secularity and Islam into global and historical perspectives. Concise and clearly written, the book is packed with wide-ranging arguments that will challenge the reader on many levels and with fascinating case studies." -- Frank Peter * Journal of Islamic Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822359982
Author Nilufer Goele
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 318g
