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Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 7
The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe is an essential resource for analysis of Europe's dynamic Muslim populations. This comprehensive annual reference work summarizes significant activities, trends and developments, and features the most current statistical information available from forty-four European countries.
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 6
The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe provides an up-to-date account of the situation of Muslims in Europe. Covering 45 countries of Europe in its broader sense, the Yearbook presents a country-by-country summary of essential data with basic statistics and evaluations of their reliability, surveys of legal status and arrangements, organisations, etc. Data have been brought up to date from the previous volume. The Yearbook is an annual reference work for country surveys on Muslims in Europe. It is an important source of reference for government and NGO officials, journalists, and policy makers as well as scholars.
The Dark Social Capital of Religious Radicals
With the departure of European Muslims to the “Islamic State” and a wave of terrorist attacks in Europe in recent years, the questions of why and how individuals radicalize to Jihadi extremism attracted keen interest. This thesis examines how individuals radicalize by applying a theoretical framework that primarily refers to social capital theory, the economics of religion, and social movement theory. The analysis of the biographical backgrounds, pathways of radicalization, and network connections of more than 1,300 Jihadi extremists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland shows that radicalization primarily need to be considered as a social process of isolation from former social contact...
Religious NGOs in International Relations
Over the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discourses and active in international decision-making. Among the estimated several million NGOs in existence today, an increasingly visible number of organizations are defining themselves in religious terms – referring to themselves as "religious", "spiritual", or "faith-based" NGOs. This book documents the initial encounters between the particularly international segment of those organizations and the UN while at the same time covering the Protestant and Catholic spectrum that dominated the early years of their activities in the UN-context. This book focuses on the construct...
(Un)Believing in Modern Society
This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of today’s sociology of religion, (Un)Believing in Modern Society presents a new theory of religious-secular competition and a new typology of ways of being religious/secular. The authors draw on a specific European society (Switzerland) as their test case, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to show how the theory can be applied. Identifying four ways of being religious/secular in a modern society: 'institutional', 'alternative', 'distanced' and 'secular' they show how and why these forms have emerged as a result of religious-secular competition and describe in what ways all four forms are adapted to the current, individualized society.
Musulmans d'aujourd'hui
Petra Bleisch Bouzar, "Dans l'islam, on doit aussi faire un peu de recherche soi-même" la reconnaissance de l'autorité dans les questions religieuses chez des femmes musulmanes en Suisse - p. 127-153; Mallory Schneuwly Purdie, Identité cocktail ou double vie : trajectoires identitaires de deux adolescentes musulmanes en Suisse - p. 155-176; Stéphane Lathion, Musulmans de Suisse, le défi de la citoyenneté - p. 177-200.
Islamophobia in the West
Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background, and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the US, have created a new research field investigating the way states and ordinary citizens react to these new phenomena. However, whilst we already know much about how Islam finds its place in Western Europe and North America, and how states react to Muslim migration, we know surprisingly little about the attitudes of ordinary citizens towards Muslim migrants and Islam. Islamophobia has only recently started to be addressed by social scientists. With contributions by leading researchers from many countries in West...
Islam in Prison
Are you a prison officer who feels nervous about dealing with Muslims on the wings? Are you a prison chaplain who wants to know how your chaplaincy affects the lives of prisoners? Are you a policymaker who needs a robust base of evidence for Islam in prison? Are you an academic or a journalist seeking ground-breaking social science in a contentious field? Based on original evidence from 279 Muslim prisoners and 79 prison officers, we explore how Muslims come to be incarcerated, how the practice of Islam affects prison life and rehabilitation, the types of Islam and the effects of Islamic conversion in prison and the professional practice of officers and chaplains. We also investigate the common belief that incarceration fosters Islamist extremism and suggest improvements to faith provision and rehabilitative opportunities for Muslim prisoners.
Frieden als Beruf. Beiträge aus der Religions- und Friedensforschung
Am 20. Dezember 2012 feierte Richard Friedli seinen 75. Geburtstag. Mit dieser Festschrift sollen seine akademische Karriere sowie seine Person gebührend geehrt werden. Die Beiträge befassen sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit den zentralen Themen sowohl seiner wissenschaftlichen Karriere als auch seiner Lehrtätigkeit: dem religiösen Faktor in der Friedensforschung, der Rolle der Religionen in den gegenwärtigen Gesellschaften sowie der Begegnung und dem Austausch der Kulturen. Die Beiträge durchzieht das von Richard Friedli immer wieder artikulierte Spannungsfeld von 'global' und 'lokal' sowie die Frage nach der sozialen Anwendung religionswissenschaftlichen Wissens.
Religion und Spiritualität in der Ich-Gesellschaft
Religiosität und Spiritualität zeigen sich in der Schweiz - so die These dieser Studie - in vier grossen Milieus: "Institutionelle" sind traditionell und freikirchlich christlich, "Alternative" setzen auf Esoterik und spirituelle Heilung, "Säkulare" sind indifferent oder religionsfeindlich. Die grosse Mehrheit der Bevölkerung aber gehört den "Distanzierten" an. Ihnen ist Religion nur in bestimmten Situationen wichtig, ihre religiösen und spirituellen Überzeugungen sind oft diffus. Anhand repräsentativer Umfragen und Tiefeninterviews zeigen die Autoren, wie sich diese Milieus innerhalb der letzten fünf Jahrzehnte aufgrund von Wertwandel und sozialen Trends tiefgreifend verändert haben.
