Islam in its International Context

Comparative Perspectives
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4438-2886-4
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten

Changing attitudes to Islam profoundly influence political cultures and national identities, as well as policies regarding immigration, security and multiculturalism. Given that the majority of relevant scholarly works have either adopted monocultural perspectives, or approached Islam in its general, non nation-specific dimension, the need for in-depth, multi-nation studies is urgent. Islam itself, and responses to its rise, are becoming increasingly internationalised. It is therefore important that analyses of Islam-related phenomena are sensitive to the particular cultures in which they are encountered. This volume does precisely that. Contributions, some explicitly comparative, others implicitly so, cover perspectives from across Europe, the USA and the Middle East, along with new treatments of the rich diversity to be found in Islamic art, and discussions of inter-faith exchanges. They also represent a range of disciplinary approaches. Among the many issues addressed are: the challenges posed by the rise of Muslim radicalism to multicultural societies; various media treatments of the ‘War on Terror’; the national specificities of Islamophobic xenophobia; contemporary visual arts in Islamic societies; differing attitudes to the translation of religious texts. The authors include authoritative, international experts, balanced by promising, younger scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flood, Chris

Miazhevich, Galina

Hutchings, Stephen

Nickels, Henri

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester and President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. He has published widely on the Russian media and recently completed a major grant project on European television representations of Islam.

Chris Flood is Professor of European Studies in the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey. He has published extensively on ideological discourses, theory of political myth as a form of communication, and the role of intellectuals as (re)producers of political ideas in Britain and France.

Galina Miazhevich is the Gorbachev Media Research Fellow at Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, and a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church. Her principal research theme is social power and globalization in Eastern Europe. She also works on media representations of terrorism, and new media and democracy in post-communist Europe.

Henri Nickels is Programme Manager for Research (Social Science) at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna. He works on analysing migration fluxes, combining research and policy work. He has published on media coverage of ethnic minorities in European societies, including Britain and France.