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Islam, Immigration, and Identity Islam, Immigration, and Identity Edited by Todd Green Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Religions www.mdpi.com/journal/religions Todd Green (Ed.) Islam, Immigration, and Identity This book is a reprint of the special issue that appeared in the online open access journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) in 2013 (available at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/islam). Guest Editor Todd Green Department of Religion, Luther College Decorah, IA 52101, USA Editorial Office MDPI AG Klybeckstrasse 64 Basel, Switzerland Publisher Shu-Kun Lin Managing Editor Jeremiah R. Zhang 1. Edition 2014 MDPI • Basel • Beijing ISBN 978-3-906980-60-7 © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. All articles in this volume are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. However, the dissemination and distribution of copies of this book as a whole is restricted to MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. III Table of Contents List of Contributors .......................................................................................................... V Todd H. Green Preface Guest Editor ........................................................................................................... X Todd H. Green Islam, Immigration, and Identity: An Introduction .............................................................. 1 Ariel Salzmann Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe Religions 2013, 4(3), 391-411 ............................................................................................. 3 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/3/391 David A. Shefferman Rhetorical Conflicts: Civilizational Discourse and the Contested Patrimonies of Spain’s Festival of Moors and Christians Religions 2014, 5(1), 126-156 ........................................................................................... 24 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/5/1/126 Stephen H. Jones New Labour and the Re-making of British Islam: The Case of the Radical Middle Way and the ‘Reclamation’ of the Classical Islamic Tradition Religions 2013, 4(4), 550-566 ........................................................................................... 55 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/4/550 Eren Tatari and Ahmet Yükleyen Minority Political Representation: Muslim Councilors in Newham and Hackney Religions 2013, 4(4), 502-528 ........................................................................................... 72 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/4/502 Mahfoud Amara Sport, Islam, and Muslims in Europe: In Between or on the Margin? Religions 2013, 4(4), 644-656 ........................................................................................... 99 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/4/644 Anne Sofie Roald Majority versus Minority: ‘Governmentality’ and Muslims in Sweden Religions 2013, 4(1), 116-131 ......................................................................................... 112 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/1/116 Alfredo Alietti and Dario Padovan Religious Racism: Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Italian Society Religions 2013, 4(4), 584-602 ......................................................................................... 128 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/4/584 IV Baljit Nagra and Ito Peng Has Multiculturalism Really Failed? A Canadian Muslim Perspective Religions 2013, 4(4), 603-620 ......................................................................................... 147 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/4/603 Jennifer A. Selby Promoting the Everyday: Pro-Sharia Advocacy and Public Relations in Ontario, Canada’s ‘Sharia Debate’ Religions 2013, 4(3), 423-442 ......................................................................................... 165 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/3/423 Louise Cainkar Learning To Be Muslim – Transnationally Religions 2014, 5(3), 594-622 ......................................................................................... 184 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/5/3/594 Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Nazir Nader Harb Post-9/11: Making Islam an American Religion Religions 2014, 5(2), 477-501 ......................................................................................... 212 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/5/2/477 Meena Sharify-Funk Pervasive Anxiety about Islam: A Critical Reading of ‘Clash’ Literature Religions 2013, 4(4), 443-468 ......................................................................................... 237 http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/4/443 V List of Contributors Alfredo Alietti is Senior Researcher in Urban Sociology at the University of Ferrara. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Milan. His research interests focus on topics at the national and European levels and include racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, interethnic relations in urban settings, settlement processes of migrants, and ethnic segregation. He is a member of steering committee of international research network called Urban Advanced Marginality. He is also a member of the Esa Research Network 31 on Ethnic Relations, Racism, and Antisemitism, and he serves on the International Advisory Board for the Theomai Journal. Mahfoud Amara is Lecturer in Sport Policy and Management and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies and Research, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University. His principal research area is comparative sports policy. He has a specific interest in sport in Arab and Muslim contexts. He has published material on the politics of the Pan-Arab Games, sport in colonial and postcolonial Algeria, sport and media in the Arab world, sport and modernization debate in the Gulf region, and sport development and development through sport in the Arab World. He also has research interests in sport, multiculturalism, and intercultural dialogue. He is the author of Sport, Politics, and Society in the Arab World (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). Louise Cainkar is Associate Professor of Sociology at Marquette University. Her research interests include Arab American studies, Muslims in the United States, and migration and immigrant integration. She is the author of Homeland Insecurity: The Arab and Muslim American Experience after 9/11 (Russell Sage Foundation 2009). She is also the past recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Scholar Award for her work on the reinvigoration of Islamic practices among second generation Muslim Americans. Todd Green is Assistant Professor of Religion at Luther College, where he teaches courses on European and American religious history. He writes and conducts research on Islamophobia and secularization in modern Europe. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in publications such as the Journal of Church and State, Journal of VI Religion in Europe, Religion Compass, and CrossCurrents. He is the author of Responding to Secularization: The Deaconess Movement in Nineteenth-Century Sweden (Brill 2011). His most recent book project surveys the history and contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia in Europe and North America and will be published by Fortress Press in 2015. Yvonne Haddad is Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown University. She is the past president of the Middle East Studies Association and has served as vice president of the American Academy of Religion, New England Region as well as the vice president of American-Arab University Graduates. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Outstanding Achievement and Distinction in Service to the Profession, Boston University, School of Theology (2007) and Scholar of the Year: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (2002). She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her extensive publications include Becoming American? The Forging of Arab and Muslim Identity in Pluralist America (Baylor University Press 2011); Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today (Oxford University Press 2006); and The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection (Oxford University Press 2002). Nazir Harb is a doctoral student in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University with foci in multimodal interaction and political discourse analysis in the field of linguistics. His dissertation focuses on forms of communicative interaction in the Arab Uprisings, and he conducts research more broadly on identity formation among American Muslims. He completed a master's degree in Arab Studies in Spring 2013 and has a master's degree in International Relations from Princeton University. His publications include articles on Muslims and Islam in America, a blog series on Princeton's 14 Points, and a co-authored chapter with Yvonne Haddad in Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture (Peter Lang 2013). Stephen Jones is Research Associate at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry. He completed his PhD on the Islamic tradition in 2010 and subsequently worked at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol, as a researcher on the ESRC/AHRC Religion and Society Programme project ‘Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance.’ He VII is currently working on a project
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