Islam in the West : perceptions and reactions / edited by Abe W. Ata, Jan A. Ali.

This text focuses on the way Muslims and mainstream societies in the West, especially in America, Australia, and Europe, perceive each other. It focuses on the meaning of being a Muslim in a multicultural, multi-religious, and technologically developed world. The essays in the volume explore the soc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ata, Ibrahim Wade (Editor)
Ali, Jan A. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xi, 265 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Also available as an e-book.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: understanding Islam-West relations and Muslim and non-Muslim mutual perceptions
  • I. Perceptions and attitudes
  • Attitudes of school-age Muslim Australians towards Australia: gender and religious discrepancies - a national survey
  • How mainstream Australian students perceive Muslims and Islam: a national survey
  • Framing, branding, and explaining: a survey of perceptions of Islam and Muslims in the Canadian polls, government, and academia
  • II. Inclusion and exclusion
  • Integrated acculturation and contact strategies to improve Anglo-Muslim relations in Australia
  • Australian Muslims as radicalized 'other' and their experiences of social exclusion
  • Young Muslims' identity in Australia and the US: the focus on the 'Muslim question'
  • Islam-West relations and the rise of Muslim radicalism and gloabl jihadism
  • Engaging with Islam, engaging with society: the participation of Muslims in Dutch society
  • III. Faith and identity
  • 'Muslims in the modern sense': Kabyles negotiating religious identity in the Czech Republic
  • Faith, identity, and ideology: experiences of Australian male converts to Islam
  • Muslim communities in a Catholic country: the case of Italy