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When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and the United States

Tirza Visser
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
- Vol. 2, Iss: 4, pp 505-506
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This article is published in International Journal of Public Theology.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 100 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Democracy & Jewish studies.

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Religion and the global middle class: towards a new research agenda

TL;DR: The authors discusses the role of religion as a central facet when researching the emerging social group of the global middle class (GMC) and argues that religion is a particularly relevant facet when studying this group.
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A crisis of religious diversity: debating integration in post-immigration Europe

TL;DR: The growing cultural complexity in the face of new immigration waves influences the public understanding of religious diversity as discussed by the authors, and the two central questions of this article are as follows: first, "ho...
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An Analysis and Recommendations Concerning an Incident in Which Muslim Students Interrupted an Israel Official Speaking on a College Campus

TL;DR: In this paper, a group of students at the University of California, Irvine, and three from UC Riverside, as part of a planned stratagem, in turn stood up and heckled the Israeli Ambassador to the United States for about 5 min during his public presentation on the Irvine campus.
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Muslim American University Students’ Perceptions of Islam and Democracy: Deconstructing the Dichotomy

TL;DR: This paper used a phenomenological framework and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine the lived experiences of seven Muslim American university students and provided supplemental perspectives from their university professors, and constructed an alternative discourse that positioned the Islamic and democratic values of equality, respect, freedom, and education as compatible, albeit with...
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Immigrant Religion in the U.S. and Western Europe: Bridge or Barrier to Inclusion?

TL;DR: The authors analyzes why immigrant religion is viewed as a problematic area in Western Europe in contrast to the United States, where it is seen as facilitating the adaptation process, and argues that the difference, it is argued, is anchored in whether or not religion can play a major role for immigrants and the second generation as a bridge to inclusion in the new society.
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Not welcome here: Discrimination towards women who wear the Muslim headscarf

TL;DR: In this article, a field experiment in which confederates portraying Hijabis or not applied for jobs at stores and restaurants was conducted, and evidence for formal discrimination (job call backs, permission to complete application), interpersonal discrimination (perceived negativity, perceived interest), and low expectations to receive job offers in the workplace was found for Hijabi confederate.
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Queer as Intersectionality: Theorizing Gay Muslim Identities:

TL;DR: The authors identify characterizations of Muslim identities as antithetical to a wide range of western values, including democracy, secularization, gender equality and sexual diversity, and argue that Islam is a threat to these values.
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Islamophobia and Threat Perceptions: Explaining Anti-Muslim Sentiment in the West

TL;DR: This article investigated the determinants of anti-Muslim sentiment in the West and found that perceived realistic and symbolic threat is the most significant source of Islamophobic attitudes in the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Spain.
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Western Views Toward Muslims: Evidence from a 2006 Cross-National Survey

TL;DR: The authors examined the determinants of Western views toward Muslims, and found that threat perceptions are the primary factor influencing these views, and that perceived cultural threats are only indirectly related to views towards Muslims.