Looking beyond the Hijab
By: Stephen M. Croucher.
Series: Communication, comparative cultures and civilizations
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781572738232; 9781572738249
Subjects: Muslims -- France -- Cultural assimilation; Muslims -- France -- Social life and customs; Muslims -- France -- Social conditions; France -- Ethnic relations
Description: "This volume is one of the only case studies that tests cultural adaptation theory in the real world. It examines the failed cultural integration of France's Muslim population and the tension that has resulted. Through the use of in-depth interviews with Muslims and non-Muslims in France, this analysis reveals that French-Muslims are unable and unwilling to completely assimilate to French culture. This finding runs counter to cultural adaptation theory. Readers will find the text both theoretically engaging and filled with rich interviews from French men and women from many walks of life."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Immigration to France. Muslims in France today. French-Muslim integration : conflicting tales of success or failure?; title: France. Importance of French revolutionary ideas. Laïcité in France; title: Islam. the Islamic veil. Muslims and the French state historically; title: Explanation of method. Setting. Participants. Interview protocol and analysis procedures. Transcription and translation of interviews; title: Cultural adaptation of Muslims in France. Cultural adaptation within the social sciences. Cultural adaptation/assimilation theory. Goals of adaptation impossible to achieve. France and forced cultural adaptation; title: Non-Muslim response to the growth of Islam in France. Muslims refuse to culturally adapt. Control of the "Muslim threat" in France; title: Future research directions. Desire for something other than assimilation or cultural adaptation in France. Cultural fusion. Identity crisis in France. Changing nature of Islam from magic to mythic religion. Conclusion.