Scholarship on religious inequality in Europe has focused mainly on the position of religious
minorities, primarily Jews and Muslims. Investigations into Islamophobia, antisemitism, and …

While French laïcité is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather
messy. What might we learn if we study the governance of religion from a dynamic bottom …

political arena, where decisions are taken with regard to the space granted to the public
manifestation of various religious groups. In public debates,(urban) policy making, and …

There is a large focus on the dominant discourses that frame Muslim women as “other” in
European public spaces, but less research on the spatial practices of Muslim women …

What are the reasons behind the failure of the Islamic theology and imam-training
programmes at the Dutch universities? To address this question, we employed qualitative …

Political secularism can be defined as a kind of political philosophy that sees the secular
state as setting the terms of encounter between the secular and the religious. However …

This article examines the rhetorical invocation of “secular ethnicity” among diasporic Syriac
Orthodox Christian activists living in the Netherlands as they seek political recognition as an …

This article calls for morebottom-up inquiry'into the secular, departing from the assumption
that it features normative ideologies and practices that dominate current societies. I plea for …

The history of Islam and Muslims in contemporary Portugal has unquestionably been
shaped by colonial dynamics, as well as post-colonial processes. The institutional …

This anthropological study investigates the intersections of secularity, sexuality, and religion
in the Dutch field of sexual health. It conceives of secularity as a collection of practices that …