Secular-Religious Competition and the Exclusion of Islam from the Public Sphere: Islamic Welfare in Western Europe
This paper deals in a qualitative discourse analysis with the role of Islamic organizations in welfare delivery in Germany and the Netherlands. Referring to Jonathan Fox's "secular-religious competition perspective", the paper argues that similar trends of exclusion of Islamic organiz...
| Subtitles: | Symposium: Political Secularism and Religious difference in Western Europe, The Middle East, and North Africa |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Politics and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 433-456 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Netherlands
/ Secularism
/ Publicity
/ Islam
/ Charity organization
/ Islamic organization
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBA Western Europe ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | This paper deals in a qualitative discourse analysis with the role of Islamic organizations in welfare delivery in Germany and the Netherlands. Referring to Jonathan Fox's "secular-religious competition perspective", the paper argues that similar trends of exclusion of Islamic organizations from public social service delivery can be explained with discourses on Islam in these two countries. The analysis, first, shows that in the national competitions between religious and secular ideologies on the public role of religion, different views are dominant (i.e., the support for the Christian majority in Germany and equal treatment of all religions in the Netherlands) which can be traced back to the respective regimes of religious governance. However, and second, when it comes to Islam in particular, in the Netherlands, the perspective of restricting all religions from public sphere prevails which leads to the rather exclusivist view on Islamic welfare that dominates in Germany, too. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-0491 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1755048318000706 |