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
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