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When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and the United States
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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.read more
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Immigrant Religion in the U.S. and Western Europe: Bridge or Barrier to Inclusion?
Nancy Foner,Richard D. Alba +1 more
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
Sonia Ghumman,Ann Marie Ryan +1 more
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
Richard Wike,Brian J. Grim +1 more
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.
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Muslim discourses on integration and schooling
TL;DR: This paper used the sociological theory of "asabiyya" to make sense of Muslim discourses through a theoretic interpretation drawn from Muslim intellectual history and provided a space for Muslim pupils and parents to articulate their own discourses on integrated and segregated schools in Britain.
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‘Just to make sure people know I was born here’: Muslim women constructing American selves
TL;DR: The authors examine Muslim American undergraduate women's performance of immigrant, gendered, youthful, Muslim and American identities, and use ethnographic vignettes gathered during research in Washington, DC from 2002 to 2003 to illustrate the discursive and performative construction of an imagined American community by Muslim Americans and majority Americans respectively.
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Not Friend, Not Foe: The Rocky Road of Enfranchisement of Muslims into Multicultural Nationhood in Australia and New Zealand
Erich Kolig,Nahid Afrose Kabir +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compared the images of citizenship available through multicultural policy provisions to the Muslim minority in Australia and New Zealand, and found that there was a considerable discrepancy between the image of citizenship and the images projected by this minority, despite many similarities that both nations have in common.
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From origins to destinations: acculturation trajectories in migrants’ attitudes towards homosexuality
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-classified hierarchical regression model and data on attitudes towards homosexuality in 83 countries of origin and 23 destination countries were used to assess whether immigrants and their children acculturate in this dimension, and how migrants' cultural practices and economic integration influence this process.
Theories of the State Accommodation of Islamic Religious Practices in
Western Europe,Eren Tatari +1 more
TL;DR: This article proposed a dynamic-compound framework which outlines the interactions between these four theories, and argued that it is necessary to include a fifth independent variable to account for the religious traditions characteristic of a particular group.