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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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Re-conceptualising the religious habitus: Reflexivity and embodied subjectivity in global modernity
Philip A. Mellor,Chris Shilling +1 more
TL;DR: This paper re-conceptualised the religious habitus as something reflexively re-made or instaured, through the cultivation of a subjectivity that locates human action, feeling and thought at the embodied intersection of worldly and other-worldly realities.
Immigration to Germany: Past and Present Experiences
TL;DR: For instance, the authors argues that Germany's normative landscape, like that of most European lands, is highly complex and contentious, manifesting Kulturkampf rather than consensus as far as immigration is concerned, and the result is a complicated, indeed messy, immigration policy that defies easy categorization into neat typologies putative in comparative immigration studies.
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Direct democracy and minority rights: direct and indirect effects on religious minorities in Switzerland
Anna Christmann,Deniz Danaci +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined both direct and indirect effects by investigating the rights of religious minorities in Switzerland and provided two main insights: all direct effects are negative and can be observed when rights of out-groups like Islamic minorities are at stake.
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The prosperous hardliner: Affluence, fundamentalism, and radicalization in Western European Muslim communities:
TL;DR: The authors found that respondents from more prosperous families are more likely to practice Islam in a way closely associated with fundamentalism and are more conservative regarding gender roles, seek the universal application of Islamic law, and embrace attitudes associated with a more politicized Islam.
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Modesty, liberty, equality: Negotiations of gendered principles of piety among Muslim women who cover:
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative research study with Muslim women who cover to investigate how they represent the Islamic virtue of modesty was conducted, and the authors found that Muslim women elaborated on the importance of modesty in their lives.