Islam and the politics of culture in Europe
Subtitle: memory, aesthetics, art
By: Frank Peter, Sarah Dornhof, Elena Arigita (eds.).
Series: Globaler, lokaler Islam -- Global, local Islam; Global, local Islam
Publisher: Transcript
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bielefeld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9783837621761
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Kulturpolitik; Religionspolitik; Political culture; Islamic influences; Muslims; Western Civilization; Ästhetik; Multiculturalism; Kunst; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The 'Cordoba Paradigm' : memory and silence around Europe's Islamic past; title: Culture, identity and civilisation : the Arabs and Islam in the history of Spain; title: Istanbul's multiculturalism reimagined in contemporary British fiction; title: Narratives of belonging and exclusion : Museum of Islamic Art; title: Visual government and Islamophobia; title: Veiled bodies, vile speech : Islam, the carnivalesque and the politics of profanation; title: On tattoos and other bodily inscriptions : some reflections on trauma and racism; title: Seeing difference, seeing differently; title: Fun and faith, music and Muslimness : dynamics of identity of Dutch-Moroccan youth; title: Performing vision : re-presentation in Islam; title: Confronting images : Jahangir versus King James I; title: From haptic to optical, performance to figuration : a history of representation at the bottom of a bowl.