Religion and Incorporation: Islam in France and Germany

Kastoryano, Riva

doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2004.tb00234.x

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“…Immigrants have always needed networks of their own communities, generally linked to religious or cultural centres (Portes and DeWind, 2004), both in the United States (Hirschman, 2004) and in countries such as France and Germany (Kastoryano, 2004). Religious centres acted as institutions of orientation to local mores, and provided much‐needed assistance in securing jobs and shelter.…”

Section: Secular States and Unsecular Immigrants?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobility: Internal and International

Bagchi

2011

Development and Change

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Section: Secular States and Unsecular Immigrants?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobility: Internal and International

Bagchi

2011

Development and Change

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“…In new settings, shared religious values offer a moral compass and an emotional anchor amidst stormy processes of readjustment (Hirschman 2004;Kastoryano 2004). It easily lends itself to transnational practice, since many faiths lack a centralized authority, allow for divergent sects and construct places of worship, along with new rituals, wherever its practitioners emigrate.…”

Section: Islam Versus Integration: Perpetuating False Dichotomiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Educating for Citizenship? Re-Assessing the Role of Islamic Instruction in German Schools

Mushaben

2010

Politics and Religion

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Positing a "clash of cultures," many European politicians oppose Muslim headscarves as well as Islamic instruction in public schools; the real source of "failed integration" lies not with the religiosity of young Muslims but rather with an arcane definition of "state neutrality" that sustains the dominance of some religions at the expense of others. Focusing on Germany, this study reviews educational statistics pertaining to youth of migrant origin, showing that conflicts over Islamic instruction mirror deeper patterns of minority discrimination. It outlines the legal hurdles new faith communities must overcome to secure recognition as "corporate entities under public law" (Körperschaftsstatus), entitling them to accredited teacher training, tax-funded salaries, construction subsidies, and other institutional privileges. It describes divergent curricular models utilized by the Länder, followed by a closer look at Islamic instruction in Berlin, where a court ruling compelled authorities to take a pro-active approach. It concludes with a review of dilemmas inherent in Germany's approach to "value education" against the backdrop of the new European Union anti-discrimination directives.Show me any mischief produced by the madness or wickedness of theologians, and I will show you a hundred resulting from the ambition and villany of conquerors and statesmen. Show me an absurdity in religion, and I will undertake to show you a hundred for one in political laws and institutions Edmund Burke, 1756

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“…In 1956, a swathe of migrants entered France from Tunisia and Morocco. Meanwhile, in 1962 France saw an influx of Algerian migrants following the latter's independence (Kastoryano, 2004).…”

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Othering and Selfing: Reading Gender Hierarchies and Social Categories in Michel Houellebecq's Novel Soumission

Udasmoro

2018

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In literature, questions of the self and the other are frequently presented. The identity politics that gained prominence after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 has occupied considerable space in this debate throughout the globe, including in France. One example of a novel dealing with the self and other is Michel Houellebecq 's Soumission (2015). This article attempts to explore the processes of selfing and othering in this work. The politics of identity that seems to present Muslims and Islam as the other and French as the self is also extended to other identities and aspects involved in the novel. This article attempts to show, first, how the French author Houellebecq positions the self and other in Soumission; second, the type of self and other the novel focuses on; and third, how its selfing and othering processes reveal the gender hierarchy and social categorization of French society. It finds that the novel presents a hierarchy in its narrative through which characters are positioned based on their gender and sexual orientation, as well as their age and ethnic heritage.

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Religion and Incorporation: Islam in France and Germany

Cited by 53 publications

References 10 publications

Mobility: Internal and International

Mobility: Internal and International

Educating for Citizenship? Re-Assessing the Role of Islamic Instruction in German Schools

Othering and Selfing: Reading Gender Hierarchies and Social Categories in Michel Houellebecq's Novel Soumission

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