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Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape: Religious Pluralism and Secularism in the Netherlands

Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape: Religious Pluralism and Secularism in the Netherlands

Ghaneabassiri, Kambiz
Peter, Frank
Arab, Pooyan Tamimi

Hardcover

Series: Islam of the Global West

Islam

ISBN10: 1474291430
ISBN13: 9781474291439
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 9 2017
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Religious Matters in an Entangled World program, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Public manifestations of Islam remain fiercely contested across the Global West. Studies to date have focused on the visual presence of Islam - the construction of mosques or the veiling of Muslim women. Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape is the first book to add a sonic dimension to analyses of the politics of Islamic aesthetics in Europe.

Sound does not respect public/private boundaries, and people experience sound viscerally. As such, the public amplification of the azan, the call to prayer, offers a unique opportunity to understand what is at stake in debates over religious toleration and secularism. The Netherlands were among the first European countries to allow the amplification of the azan in the 1980s, and Pooyan Tamimi Arab explores this as a case study embedded in a broader history of Dutch religious pluralism.

The book offers a pointed critique of social theories that regard secularism as all-encompassing. While cultural forms of secularism exclude Muslim rights to public worship, Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape argues that political and constitutional secularism also enables Muslim demands for amplifying calls to prayer. It traces how these exclusions and inclusions are effected through proposals for mosques, media debates, law and policy, but also in negotiations on the ground between residents, municipalities and mosques.

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