New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism
By: by Erich Kolig.
Series: Muslim minorities -- v. 9
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004178359
Subjects: Muslims -- New Zealand -- Social conditions; Muslims -- Cultural assimilation -- New Zealand; Muslims -- New Zealand -- Ethnic identity; Multiculturalism -- New Zealand; Group identity -- New Zealand; Islam -- New Zealand; New Zealand -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand; title: Field research; title: Community, identity, diversity; title: The beginnings; title: Muslim representation; title: Organisational functions and aims; title: Outreach programmes; title: The myth of Muslim unity; title: Living among infidels; title: Orientalism and Islamophobia; title: Converts; title: Students; title: The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere; title: The New Zealand state and multiculturalism; title: Secularisation and the right to religion; title: Legal instruments; title: 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity; title: Education and policy framework; title: Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims; title: The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism; title: Rivals for custodianship of public morality; title: Integration and conflict discourses; title: 'When in Rome do as the Romans do'; title: The necessity of minority integration; title: Conflict discourses; title: Blasphemous libel and Islam; title: Danish cartoons rock the world; title: Gender issues : women are equal but different; title: Of gender separation and inequality; title: Concepts of decency and modesty; title: The Burqa case; title: Hijab versus Burqa; title: Whose authority?; title: The Burqa's challenge to multiculturalism; title: Globalisation, political Islam, and the rise of fundamentalism; title: Is extremism rising in New Zealand?; title: 'Fundamentalists' and 'moderates' fighting over the Christchurch Mosque and Halal meat; title: Muslim firebrand preachers; title: Re-islamisation and fundamentalisation in the world; title: Fundamentalism is not all the same; title: The radical concept of Jihad; title: The spectre of terrorism; title: The Zaoui case; title: Epilogue: Muslims in the world.