This chapter deals with the dominant ways in which Muslims and Islam are depicted and
represented in a Western imaginary. It offers a literature review that situates the empirical …

This conceptual article expands our knowledge on the meaning and practice of spiritual
global citizenship by focusing on the civic and global purposes of Islamic religious education …

A wealth of literature on Muslims residing in western liberal democracies has been written
over the last two decades or so, in particular after the events of 9/11. This article reviews the …

The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has
provoked public anxiety. New government regulations seek not only to restrict Islamic …

The practice of Islamic veiling has over the last ten years emerged into a popular site of
investigation. Different researchers have focused on the various significations of this bodily …

Looking at the current academic investigations of Muslim women, especially in European
contexts, we can indeed observe a tendency to draw a linear linkage between knowledge …

How do we learn to be religious? To make sense of this process should we emphasise the
habitual reinforcement of bodily rituals? Or the active role of individuals in making decisions …

A major question regarding Islam in Europe concerns the religiosity of “Muslim youth”–a
category currently epitomizing both the fears and hopes of multicultural Europe. How are …

This essay deals with the influential anthropological work of Prof. Talal Asad on Islam,
secularism and the secular. I argue that the binaryWestern—non-Western'which is …

This article explores religious adaptation among immigrant-origin youth in Norway, using the
first wave of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Norway (CILS-NOR). To …