Living Islam in the Diaspora: Between Turkey and Germany

Ewing argues that certain images of Islam are taken up in German public culture and transferred onto Germany itself, so that the visible, practicing Muslim is constituted as a threat to the foundations of German democracy and the German constitution. Ewing contends that despite the principle of reli...

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Published in:The South Atlantic quarterly 2003, Vol.102 (2-3), p.405-431
Main Author: Ewing, Katherine Pratt
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cultural identity
Cultural Studies
Culture
Diaspora
German
Immigrants
Immigration
Literary Criticism
Literature and Literary Studies
Middle East Studies
Muslims
Politics
Social conditions & trends
Social identity
Turkish language
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Summary:Ewing argues that certain images of Islam are taken up in German public culture and transferred onto Germany itself, so that the visible, practicing Muslim is constituted as a threat to the foundations of German democracy and the German constitution. Ewing contends that despite the principle of religious freedom that Germans understand to lie at the heart of their political and social order, diasporic Turkish immigrants in Germany are constrained in the range of possibilities available to them for taking up or rejecting a Muslim identity.
ISSN:0038-2876
1527-8026
DOI:10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-405