Rethinking Islam and Space in Europe: The Politics of Race, Time and Secularism

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C.J.J. Moses (University of Cambridge, UK) Tobias Müller (University of Cambridge, UK)

Rethinking Islam and Space in Europe

The Politics of Race, Time and Secularism

C.J.J. Moses (University of Cambridge, UK), Tobias Müller (University of Cambridge, UK), Adela Taleb (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Islam; Islamic studies

Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

The role of Islam in public spaces is one of the most prevalent political questions in Europe. Contestations around the construction of mosques, the ban of Islamic veils and populist rhetoric about “problematic” neighbourhoods indicate Europe’s struggles with the place of its second largest religion. This book advocates for an analytical turn in the study of Islam in Europe using space as a central conceptual lens. While spatial approaches are gaining traction in the study of religion, migration, ethnicity, race, and politics, the chapters in this book argue that the critical potential of a spatialised analysis in the field of Islam in Europe remains largely unexplored.

This volume presents a collection of nine empirical studies that offer insights into how scholars might exploit the category of space when analysing both current political issues and broader conceptual questions in the social sciences. And more specifically, how does a spatial perspective on Islam contribute to a deeper understanding of the formations of the state, ethnicity, race, secularism, gender, and colonial structures?

Rethinking Islam and Space in Europe is a significant new contribution to racial and ethnic studies in Europe, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Politics, Sociology, Social and Political Geography, Anthropology and Religious Studies.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a 2021 special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Edited by: C.J.J. Moses (University of Cambridge UK), Tobias Müller (University of Cambridge, UK), Adela Taleb (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032282558
ISBN 10: 103228255X
Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

C.J.J. Moses has a PhD in the Anthropology of Religion from the University of Cambridge. Tobias Müller is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Research Fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg. Adela Taleb is a PhD candidate at the Institute for European Ethnology of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.