Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77212-792-8
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

Dominant scholarship identifies Islamophobia as a form of racism where race and religion have become conflated in social structures. These important analyses form a complex ideological, social, political, and historical construction. However, the authors in this volume argue that current scholarship does not account for the relationship between secularism and race in social structures in theorizing Islamophobia. Advocating for a decolonial approach to better theorize the phenomenon, Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia intervenes in this area of scholarship to call attention to the ways secularism is embedded in and drives the disciplinary institutions of the State—such as law, political groups, government entities, and bureaucracies—to authorize racism and the racialization of Muslims and Islam. Highlighting the extent and nature of contemporary scholarly debates as well as public efforts to counter Islamophobia, the contributors to this collection address and deepen awareness of its present-day formations in secular neoliberal societies. Scholars and students from anthropology, sociology, law, political science, and beyond will benefit from this interdisciplinary study. 

Contributors: Khaled Al-Qazzaz, Jinan Bastaki, Dustin J. Byrd, Zeinab Diab, Alain Gabon, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Fatimah Jackson-Best, Roshan Arah Jahangeer, Areesha Khan, Sharmin Sadequee, Saul J. Takahashi, Nakita Valerio. Foreword by Jasmin Zine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sadequee, Sharmin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung, Religionskonflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Antidiskriminierung (AGG), Gleichbehandlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction: Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia / Sharmin Sadequee

- Part I: Post-Secularity, Ethnosphere, and Neoliberalism

- Chapter One: Freeing Religion / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

- Chapter Two: The Limits of the Translation Proviso: The Inherent Alien within the Willed-Community / Dustin J. Byrd

- Chapter Three: New French Islamophobia in a post-Secular France / Alain Gabon

- Chapter Four: The Best Muslims are the Ones Who Leave: Neoliberalism and the Limits of Accommodation / Jinan Bastaki

- Part II: Law, Gender, and Secular Translations

- Chapter Five: Religiosity as a Threat: Muslims in Japan and Denmark / Saul J. Takahashi

- Chapter Six: Muslim Women, Trials, and Terror under UAPA in India / Areesha Khan

- Chapter Seven: Québec and Law 21, a Conceptual Ecosystem of Otherness:

- Between Omnipresence and Absence(s) / Zeinab Diab

- Chapter Eight: Good Islam, Bad Islam? Secularism, Separatism, and Islamophobia in France / Roshan Arah Jahangeer

- Part III: Combating Compounding Islamophobia

- Chapter Nine: Compounded Islamophobia: The Impact of Anti-Black Racism and Gender-Based Discrimination on Muslim Mental Health in Canada / Fatimah Jackson-Best

- Chapter Ten: Combating Canadian Islamophobia: Interventions and Gaps / Khaled Al Qazzaz and Nakita Valerio

- Contributor Biographies

Über Autor(innen)

Sadequee, Sharmin
Sharmin Sadequee is a cultural anthropologist of religion and secularism with a research focus on Islam and Muslims in North America. Her research explores how human beings construct and are constructed by their social, political, and legal structures, and by their natural and built environment in a globalized world. She has spent the last 15 years researching and recording the experiences of settler-immigrant and natural-born American Muslims affected by surveillance, terrorism prosecutions, and securitized prisons, and their engagement in social justice movements. Her research also includes Muslim American experiences of disputes over religious land use in Islamic cemetery and mosque constructions and environmental sustainability. Her scholarship is interdisciplinary and engaged in the fields of law, religious studies, Islamic studies, secularism studies, political science, environmental studies, and colonialism. She has held a post-doctoral position at the University of Alberta-Augustana and earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Michigan State University.