Cherribi, S: In the House of War

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-973411-5
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

Reihe: Religion and Global Politics

Exposes the "trifecta of coercion" - the triple pressures of Muslim orthodoxy's expectations for individuals, Dutch and general European expectations for immigrants, and the individual's day to day challenges, complicated by his identity as a Muslim immigrant in a non-Muslim culture - or, as the imams call it, "in the house of war."

Sam Cherribi is a Moroccan Muslim who became a naturalized Dutch citizen and member of the Dutch Parliament. In this book he draws on his personal experiences with European politics and media, extensive fieldwork in Dutch mosques, and interviews with imams. In recent years, the Netherlands has been swept by the same forces of change that have swept the rest of Europe - the consolidation of the European Union, a massive influx of Muslim immigrants and the rising voice of Islamic fundamentalism. Cherribi argues that this small country has amplified these forces, providing a useful lens through which to examine trends in all of Europe. The portents are troubling, he notes, as evidenced by the murders of journalist Pim Fortuyn and filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, after which riots broke out, mosques were burned, and Muslims were openly reviled by the public and the media. Cherribi was voted out of Parliament in the anti-migrant fervor that engulfed the Netherlands after these murders and like many other Dutch Muslims he emigrated to the United States. Looking back on these events, and bringing to bear his skills and training as a sociologist, Cherribi provides an invaluable account of one country's encounter with some of the most troubling trends of our times.

Zielgruppe

Social scientists, students, faculty, journalists and politicians in Europe, the US, and the Muslim/Arab world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cherribi, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Confessions: The Composite Relationship of the Secular and the Religious
1.: The Established and the Outsider of the European Integration
2.: Immigration without Integration
3.: How Europe's Secularism became Contentious: Mosques, Imams, and Issues
4.: Prisoners of the mosque
5.: Pim Fortuyn versus Islam: Muslims, Gays and the Media's Reliance on Conflict
6.: The Public Intellectual versus Islam: A Year of Sex and Rhetoric
7.: Riding Pim's Wave: Islam, Women, the Sacred, and the Naked
Conclusion: The Vanishing Muslim Individual
Endnotes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Cherribi, Senior lecturer in sociology, Emory University