In Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Göle shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public sphere unsettles narratives of Western secularism. As mutually constitutive, Islam and secularism permeate each other, the effects of which play out in embodied and aesthetic practices and are accompanied by fear, anxiety, and violence. In this timely book, Göle illuminates the recent rethinking of secularism and religion, of modernity and resistance to it, of the public significance of sexuality, and of the shifting terrain of identity in contemporary Europe.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Public Sphere beyond Religious-Secular Dichotomies
- 2. Secular Modernity in Question
- 3. Religious-Secular Frontiers: State, Public Sphere, and the Self
- 4. Web of Secular Power: Civilization, Space, and Sexuality
- 5. The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere
- 6. Public Islam: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries
- 7. Public Culture, Art, and Islam: Turkish-Delight in Vienna
- 8. Europe’s Trouble with Islam: What Future?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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