New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kolig, Erich
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Muslim minorities ; v. 9.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand
  • Field research
  • Community, identity, diversity
  • The beginnings
  • Muslim representation
  • Organisational functions and aims
  • Outreach programmes
  • The myth of Muslim unity
  • Living among infidels
  • Orientalism and Islamophobia
  • Converts
  • Students
  • The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere
  • The New Zealand state and multiculturalism
  • Secularisation and the right to religion
  • Legal instruments
  • 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity
  • Education and policy framework
  • Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims
  • The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism
  • Rivals for custodianship of public morality
  • Integration and conflict discourses
  • 'When in Rome do as the Romans do'
  • The necessity of minority integration
  • Conflict discourses
  • Blasphemous libel and Islam
  • Danish cartoons rock the world
  • The Pope's gaffe
  • Gender issues : women are equal but different
  • Of gender separation and inequality
  • Concepts of decency and modesty
  • The Burqa case
  • Hijab versus Burqa
  • Whose authority?
  • The Burqa's challenge to multiculturalism
  • Globalisation, political Islam and the rise of fundamentalism
  • Is extremism rising in New Zealand?
  • 'Fundamentalists' and 'moderates' fighting over the Christchurch Mosque and Halal meat
  • Muslim firebrand preachers
  • Re-Islamisation and fundamentalisation in the world
  • Fundamentalism is not all the same
  • The radical concept of Jihad
  • The spectre of terrorism
  • The Zaoui case
  • Epilogue: Muslims in the world.