Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia

Edited by Sharmin Sadequee

ISBN13: 9781772127928

Imprint: University of Alberta Press

Publisher: University of Alberta Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 01/05/2025

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Description
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.
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
  • Social discrimination & inequality
  • Religious & theocratic ideologies
  • Religion & politics
  • Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
  • Professional & Vocational
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