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Church and State in Enlightenment Europe
This chapter will focus on Enlightenment Europe as the most immediate background and point of reference for the early development of American ideas...
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The Study of Religious and Worldview Diversity in Public Schools: Contributions from the Council of Europe
This chapter outlines some issues in incorporating the study of religions, together with non-religious worldviews, into the curricula of publicly...
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Eschatological Politics and Intellectual Jihad: Shaykh Ahmad ibn Idris’s Legacy in Europe
How can the action of a group of European Muslims linked to the blessings of the tariqa of Shaykh Ahmad ibn Idris al-Hasani al-Fasi contribute to the...
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Introduction: Jewish Women in Modern Eastern and East Central Europe
In their programmatic introduction to a 2005 volume of Polin, entitled “Jewish Women in Eastern Europe,” ChaeRan Freeze and Paula Hyman lamented that...
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Experiences of Muslims in Western Europe
The chapter provides an overview of the development of the Muslim presence in Western Europe focussing on the period after World War II. The...
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Experience of Muslims in Eastern Europe
The chapter addresses the evolution of Islamic presence and Muslim experiences in two dozen post-socialist countries collectively comprising the...
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Burning Man in Europe: Burns, Culture and Transformation
Burning Man is an annual participatory arts event and temporary city co-created in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Also known as Black Rock City, it...
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“The Ties that Bind Us to Turkey”: The Turkish Jewish Diaspora in Europe and Its Relations with the “Home Country”
The relationship between ‘Turkish’ Jews and the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is marked by immigration and emigration. Between 1890 and...
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Experiences of Muslims in Western Europe
The chapter provides an overview of the development of the Muslim presence in Western Europe focussing on the period after World War II. The...
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Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe
Despite the very different and to some extent opposite historical and political trajectories, there is today a convergence on nationalist affirmation...
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Labelling Islam: Structuring Ideas in Islamic Galleries in Europe
This chapter analyses contemporary European exhibition of Islamic art using framing theory paired with the perspective of Beverly Serrell’s Exhibit...
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Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond: An Introduction
This chapter introduces the composition of this volume, Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond. It details how the...
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The LDS Church in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in experienced modest initial growth in Eastern Europe and Russia following the entrance of full-time...
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How Cultural and Religious Pluralism Shapes Europe: The Role of Muslim Minorities
The presence of ever-increasing numbers of immigrants in the European social landscape is not merely a quantitative fact with different consequences...
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Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe
This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe...
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Beyond Black and White: The Italian Reception of the Debate on Native Indian Commentaries in Nineteenth-century Vedic Studies
This article discusses the nineteenth-century debate between German and British Indologists on ancient Indian commentators, shedding light on how...
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Hizmet in Transitions European Developments of a Turkish Muslim-Inspired Movement
In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in...
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Jewish Women in Modern Eastern and East Central Europe
This book provides a rigorous social historical study of Eastern and East Central European Jewry with a specific focus on women. It demonstrates that...
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Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond
This volume addresses three things many people do not discuss candidly with strangers or mere acquaintances: God, sex, and politics. These can easily...