2005, ISBN: 9780191516122

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and com… More...

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order to say who they are not. They are not fundamentalists, not terrorists, and most donot support the introduction of Islamic religious law in Europe - especially not its application to Christians. This book is about who these people are, and what they want. This book is based on three hundred interviews with European Muslim leaders from six European countries: Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The question of Islam in Europe is not a matter of global war and peace but raises difficult questions about the positions of Christianity and Islam in public life, and about European identities. Europe´s Muslim political leaders are not aiming to overthrow liberal democracy and to replace secular law with Islamicreligious law. Those are the positions of a minority. There is not one Muslim position on how Islam should develop in Europe but many views, and most Muslims are rather looking for ways to build institutions that will allow European Muslims to practice their religion in a way that is compatible with socialintegration. The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order to say who they are not. They are not fundamentalists, not terrorists, and most donot support the introduction of eBook PDF 27.10.2005 eBooks>Fremdsprachige eBooks>Englische eBooks, OUP Oxford, .200<

ISBN: 9780191516122

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and com… More...

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists.They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order to say who they are not.They are not fundamentalists, not terrorists, and most donot support the introduction of Islamic religious law in Europe - especially not its application to Christians.This book is about who these people are, and what they want. This book is based on three hundred interviews with European Muslim leaders from six European countries: Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, and Germany.The question of Islam in Europe is not a matter of global war and peace but raises difficult questions about the positions of Christianity and Islam in public life, and about European identities.Europe's Muslim political leaders are not aiming to overthrow liberal democracy and to replace secular law with Islamicreligious law.Those are the positions of a minority. There is not one Muslim position on how Islam should develop in Europe but many views, and most Muslims are rather looking for ways to build institutions that will allow European Muslims to practice their religion in a way that is compatible with socialintegration.; PDF; Reference > Interdisciplinary studies > Regional studies, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191516122

Who are Europe's Muslim leaders? How do they view Islamic integration into European society and politics?Based on 300 interviews with Muslim leaders, this innovative book tackles big ques… More...

Who are Europe's Muslim leaders? How do they view Islamic integration into European society and politics?Based on 300 interviews with Muslim leaders, this innovative book tackles big questions to reveal what Muslim leaders in Europe really want and the myriad ways in which Islam can become a European religion. ; PDF; Politics, Philosphy & Religion > Religion & beliefs > Islam, OUP Oxford<

2005, ISBN: 9780191516122

Politics and Religion in Western Europe, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: OUP Oxford], OUP Oxford, 2005

ISBN: 9780191516122

ebook, OUP Oxford