Roy Olivier
Roy Olivier - Secularism Confronts Islam - Paperback
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Description: The denunciation of fundamentalism in France embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French - - and consequently secular and liberal - society. However as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a "true believer." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society. Western society is unable to recognize this process Roy argues because of a cultural bias that assumes religious practice is embedded within a specific traditional culture that must be either erased entirely or forced to coexist in a neutral multicultural space. Instead Roy shows that new forms of religiosity such as Islamic fundamentalism and Christian evangelicalism have come to thrive in post - traditional secular contexts precisely because they remain detached from any cultural background. In recognizing this Roy recasts the debate concerning Islam and democracy. Analyzing the French case in particular in which the tension between Islam and the conception of Western secularism is exacerbated Roy makes important distinctions between Arab and non - Arab Muslims hegemony and tolerance and the role of the umma and the sharia in Muslim religious life. He pits Muslim religious revivalism against similar movements in the West such as evangelical Protestantism and Jehovah's Witnesses and refutes the myth of a single " Muslim community" by detailing different groups and their inability to overcome their differences. Roy's rare portrait of the realities of immigrant Muslim life offers a necessary alternative to the popular specter of an " Islamic threat." Supporting his arguments with his extensive research on Islamic history sociology and politics Roy brilliantly demonstrates the limits of our understanding of contemporary Islamic religious practice in the West and the role of Islam as a screen onto which Western societies project their own identity crisis.
Title: Secularism Confronts Islam
Author(s): Roy Olivier
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231141031
Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/31/2009
Category: Politics & Government
Description: The denunciation of fundamentalism in France embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French - - and consequently secular and liberal - society. However as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a "true believer." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society. Western society is unable to recognize this process Roy argues because of a cultural bias that assumes religious practice is embedded within a specific traditional culture that must be either erased entirely or forced to coexist in a neutral multicultural space. Instead Roy shows that new forms of religiosity such as Islamic fundamentalism and Christian evangelicalism have come to thrive in post - traditional secular contexts precisely because they remain detached from any cultural background. In recognizing this Roy recasts the debate concerning Islam and democracy. Analyzing the French case in particular in which the tension between Islam and the conception of Western secularism is exacerbated Roy makes important distinctions between Arab and non - Arab Muslims hegemony and tolerance and the role of the umma and the sharia in Muslim religious life. He pits Muslim religious revivalism against similar movements in the West such as evangelical Protestantism and Jehovah's Witnesses and refutes the myth of a single " Muslim community" by detailing different groups and their inability to overcome their differences. Roy's rare portrait of the realities of immigrant Muslim life offers a necessary alternative to the popular specter of an " Islamic threat." Supporting his arguments with his extensive research on Islamic history sociology and politics Roy brilliantly demonstrates the limits of our understanding of contemporary Islamic religious practice in the West and the role of Islam as a screen onto which Western societies project their own identity crisis.
Title: Secularism Confronts Islam
Author(s): Roy Olivier
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231141031
Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/31/2009
Category: Politics & Government
