Islam and Secularity

The Future of Europe's Public Sphere

Nilüfer Göle, Nileufer Geole

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Duke University Press
23 October 2015

Social & political philosophy; Religion & beliefs; Propaganda

Series: Public Planet Books

In Islam and Secularity Nilufer Goele takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Goele shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public sphere unsettles narratives of Western secularism. As mutually constitutive, Islam and secularism permeate each other, the effects of which play out in embodied and aesthetic practices and are accompanied by fear, anxiety, and violence. In this timely book, Goele illuminates the recent rethinking of secularism and religion, of modernity and resistance to it, of the public significance of sexuality, and of the shifting terrain of identity in contemporary Europe.

By: Nilüfer Göle, Nileufer Geole
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780822359982
ISBN 10: 0822359987
Series: Public Planet Books
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 23 October 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Acknowledgments ix 1. Public Sphere beyond Religious-Secular Dichotomies 1 2. Secular Modernity in Question 31 3. Religious-Secular Frontiers: State, Public Sphere, and the Self 53 4. Web of Secular Power: Civilization, Space, and Sexuality 73 5. The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere 103 6. Public Islam: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries 135 7. Public Culture, Art, and Islam: Turkish-Delight in Vienna 161 8. Europe's Trouble with Islam: What Future? 193 Notes 227 Bibliography 243 Index 257

Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Centre d'Études Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). She is the author of Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism and editor of Islam and Public Controversy in Europe.

Reviews for Islam and Secularity: The Future of Europe's Public Sphere

Nilufer Gole's insistence on the 'interpenetration' of Muslim and European experience is a major contribution, offering incisive theoretical formulations. In explicating the mutual interactions and transformations that arise from the conflicts and anxieties that accompany the proximity of Islam within Europe, she comments in new and insightful ways about Muslim/European relations. Gole is a major thinker who deserves more prominence. -- Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study The secular is never neutral, but it has been deployed in particularly challenging ways in relation to Islam. Nilufer Gole's discussion in Islam and Secularity takes up the shifting projects and stances that shape this relationship, especially in Turkey and France, but in ways that are of global significance. -- Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science