New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism:
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Main Author: Kolig, Erich (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2010
Series:Muslim minorities v. 9
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand -- Field research -- Community, identity, diversity -- The beginnings -- Muslim representation -- Organisational functions and aims -- Outreach programmes -- The myth of Muslim unity -- Living among infidels -- Orientalism and Islamophobia -- Converts -- Students -- The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere -- The New Zealand state and multiculturalism -- Secularisation and the right to religion -- Legal instruments -- 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity -- Education and policy framework -- Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims -- The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism -- Rivals for custodianship of public morality -- Integration and conflict discourses -- 'When in Rome do as the Romans do' -- The necessity of minority integration -- Conflict discourses -- Blasphemous libel and Islam -- Danish cartoons rock the world -- The Pope's gaffe -- Gender issues : women are equal but different -- Of gender separation and inequality -- Concepts of decency and modesty -- The Burqa case -- Hijab versus Burqa -- Whose authority? -- The Burqa's challenge to multiculturalism -- Globalisation, political Islam and the rise of fundamentalism -- Is extremism rising in New Zealand? -- 'Fundamentalists' and 'moderates' fighting over the Christchurch Mosque and Halal meat -- Muslim firebrand preachers -- Re-Islamisation and fundamentalisation in the world -- Fundamentalism is not all the same -- The radical concept of Jihad -- The spectre of terrorism -- The Zaoui case -- Epilogue: Muslims in the world
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 272 pages)
ISBN:900417835X
9047440706
9789004178359
9789047440703

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