Overview
- Unwraps the way in which the tension between secular and religious is understood as an absolute polarization
- Makes an important contribution to the recent European debate concerning the practice of veiling
- Brings together arguments from different fields with a comparative legal and political analysis of Western and Islamic law and politics
Part of the book series: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies (BOREFRRERE)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Headscarf debate Europe
- Women and Human Rights
- Muslim women in secular contemporary Europe
- Gender, Secularism and Islam
- The veil and Islamic law
- Politics of clothes
- Burkinis, face veils and hijab
- Clash of civilizations
- Semiotic of religious symbols
- The veil and Muslim cultures
- Religious practices in the secular Europe
- European Court of Human Rights and the practice of veiling
- Multiculturalism and women
About this book
This book analyzes the implication of secular/liberal values in Western and human rights law and its impact on Muslim women. It offers an innovative reading of the tension between the religious and secular spheres. The author does not view the two as binary opposites. Rather, she believes they are twin categories that define specific forms of lives as well as a specific notion of womanhood. This divergence from the usual dichotomy opens the doors for a reinterpretation of secularism in contemporary Europe.
This method also helps readers to view the study of religion vs. secularism in a new light. It allows for a better understanding of the challenges that contemporary Europe now faces regarding the accommodation of different religious identities. For instance, one entire section of the book concerns the practice of veiling and explores the contentious headscarf debate. It features case studies from Germany, France, and the UK. In addition, the analysis combines a widerange of disciplines and employs an integrated, comparative, and inter-disciplinary approach. The author successfully brings together arguments from different fields with a comparative legal and political analysis of Western and Islamic law and politics. This innovative study appeals to students and researchers while offering an important contribution to the debate over the role of religion in contemporary secular Europe and its impact on women’s rights and gender equality.Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Un-Veiling Dichotomies
Book Subtitle: European Secularism and Women’s Veiling
Authors: Giorgia Baldi
Series Title: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79297-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79296-1Published: 28 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79299-2Published: 29 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79297-8Published: 27 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2214-5281
Series E-ISSN: 2214-529X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 197
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Critical Theory, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History