Islam in Public Space
More and more Muslims are coming out in public worldwide as Muslims, making religious difference visible through veiling and other micropractices. “Second- wave” Islamism, a social movement that has turned cultural, in this way challenges a public imagined as secular and attempts to redesign the borders between public and private. The international and interdisciplinary research project Islam and Public Space, directed by Nilüfer Göle (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, studies Islamic publics in the making—how Muslim actors create new (counter)publics and transform given publics.
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