Welfare Activities by New Religious Actors
Presents original descriptive data on the activities and structures of Islamic organisationsOffers a critical description of the existing academic literature on the social activities of Islamic actors in several countries of Western EuropeIllustrates how Muslim European populations are often theoretically represented as isolated from the state structure
| Autor: | Banfi, Elisa |
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| ISBN: | 9783319620954 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 275 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 02.10.2017 |
| Untertitel: | Islamic Organisations in Italy and Switzerland |
| Schlagworte: | Anti-Islamophobic Discourse Civil rights Colonialism Islamic Sociocultural Activism in Geneva Islamic Sociocultural Activism in Rome Islamic Sociocultural Activism in Zurich Islamic Welfare Activism Islamic welfare Muslim immigration ius sanguinis |
Elisa Banfi is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Institute for Citizenship Studies (InCite) at the University of Geneva. Her work focuses on Muslim organisations in Europe, the engagement of religious actors, and the relationship between Islam and politics.