Politics, religion and gender : framing and regulating the veil

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Label

Politics, religion and gender : framing and regulating the veil

Title remainder

framing and regulating the veil

Statement of responsibility

edited by Sieglinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer

Contributor

• Rosenberger, Sieglinde, 1957-
• Sauer, Birgit

Subject

• Clothing and dress -- Law and legislation -- Europe
• Europe
• Muslim women -- Clothing | Government policy -- Europe
• Muslim women -- Clothing | Political aspects -- Europe
• Religion and politics -- Europe
• Veils -- Political aspects -- Europe

Language

eng

Summary

"Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalises and causes such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, migration, and multiculturalism. Seeking also to establish why the issue has become part of the disciplinary practices of some European countries but not of others, this work brings together an important collection of interpretative research regarding the current debates on the veil in Europe, offering an interdisciplinary scope and European-wide setting. Brought together through a common research methodology, the contributors focus on the different religious, political and cultural meanings of the veiling issue across eight countries and develop a comparative explanation of veiling regimes."--Publisher's website

Member of

• Routledge studies in religion and politics

Cataloging source

E7B

Dewey number

305.6/97576

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BL65.P7

LC item number

P64245 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Routledge studies in religion and politics