The public visibility of Islam and European politics of resentment: The minarets-mosques debate

Philosophy and Social Criticism

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 383-392

  Göle, Nilüfer ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

Citizenship; European publics; Interpenetration; Islam; Public sphere; Religious difference; Visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957950623     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: 1461734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0191453711398773     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. For an analysis of religious sociability, the changing role of Friday prayer and the mosques in Iran since the revolution
2. see Fariba Adelkhah, 'Iran: vers un espace public confessionnel?', Les Etudes du CERI 27 (June 1997): 1-33.
3. Patrick Haenni and Stéphane Lathion (eds) Les Minarets de la discorde. Éclairages sur un débat suisse et européen (Fribourg: Religioscope, 2009).
4. For an intellectual and performative exercise inspired by this Islamic principle concerning the mosque
5. see Azra Akšamija, 'Nomadic Mosque: Wearable Mosque Spaces for Contemporary Islamic Practice in the West', Thresholds 32 (2005): 17-21.
6. Here she argues that the minute Muslims turn to Mecca to perform their prayer they transform any space into a mosque.
7. Nebahat Avcioglu, 'Identity-as-Form: The Mosque in the West', Cultural Analysis 6 (2007): 91-112 (92).
8. Ergün Erkoçu and Cihan Buǧdaci (eds) The Mosque: Political, Architectural and Social Transformations (Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2009).
9. See especially the article by Roemer van Toorn, 'Countering the Clash of Culture: Mosque Architecture as an Emancipating Factor', in ibid., pp. 107-13.
10. Carla Power, 'Updating the Mosque for the 21st Century', Time magazine, 2 April 2009; available at: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1889047,00.html
11. All these issues were raised during my fieldwork research conducted in Switzerland just after the referendum in December 2009.
12. The Experimental Group Discussion in Geneva was realized within the framework of the 'EuroPublicIslam' project that I currently direct. My research project has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seven Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), Grant Agreement no. 230244.
13. See the web page: http://europublicislam.ehess.fr/
14. For a very comprehensive research on mosques.
15. see Stefano Allievi, Conflicts over Mosques in Europe: Policy Issues and Trends (London: NEF, 2009), especially pp. 38-50.
16. See also Marcel Maussen, Constructing Mosques: TheGovernance of Islam in France and the Netherlands (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2009).
17. 'Marine Le Pen: Muslims in France "like Nazi occupation"', 12 December 2010, available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8197895/Marine-Le-Pen-Muslimsin-France-like-Nazi-occupation.html
18. As the title of my research project attests.
19. see Nilüfer Göle, "Islam in the making of a European Public Sphere', in 'EuroPublicIslam', at: http://europublicislam.ehess.fr/
20. Vincent Geisser, La Nouvelle Islamophobie (Paris: La Découverte, 2003).
21. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds) Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005).
22. Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind, vols 1 and 2 (New York: Mariner Books, 1981).
23. Nilüfer Göle, Interpénétrations: L'Islam et l'Europe (Paris: Galaade Editions, 2005).
24. The English-language translation has recently been published: Nilüfer Göle, Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism, trans. S. Rendall (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2010).
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26. "Mosque in Bradford with Four Minarets wins Prize', Islamist Watch, 20 April 2010, available at: http://www.islamist-watch.org/3740/europes-most-beautiful-minaret-at-uk-mosque
27. Allievi, Conflicts over Mosques in Europe, p. 39.
28. "Saucisson-pinard: quand l'apéro géant devient discriminatoire', Rue 89.Com, 14 June 2010, available at: http://www.rue89.com/mouloud-akkouche/2010/06/14/saucisson-pinard-quandlapero-geant-devient-discriminatoire-154815