Celtic ancestors and Muhammad’s legacy: Types of narratives in a convert’s construction of religiosity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 9
4. Introduction 11
5. PART I Rules and roles
6. Rules and roles 39
7. Racial grammar and the green menace 43
8. The ambiguity of law and Muslim debates about the contextualisation of Islam in France 63
9. ‘Muslim women’ marking debates on Islam 81
10. Formatting Islam versus mobilising Islam in prison: Evidence from the Swiss case 99
11. The politics of Sikh Islamophobia 119
12. PART II The one facing the many
13. The one facing the many 137
14. Celtic ancestors and Muhammad’s legacy: Types of narratives in a convert’s construction of religiosity 141
15. The imagining of Muslim converts in Britain by themselves and others 165
16. “I have become a stranger in my homeland”: An analysis of the public performance of converts to Islam in Switzerland 181
17. Islamic fields and Muslim techniques of the self in a German context 203
18. Part III The many facing the ‘other’ (within)
19. The many facing the ‘other’ (within) 223
20. Institutionalised Austrian Islam: One institution representing the many 227
21. ‘We are in this together’: How the cartoon crisis changed relations between the Danish state and Muslim Danes 243
22. Basel’s ‘swimming refuseniks’: A systemic study on how politics observe Muslim claims to diversity in state schools 263
23. ‘Against Islam, but not against Muslims’: Actors and attitudes in the Swiss minaret vote 285
24. Protecting democracy, misrecognising Muslims? An assessment of Swiss integration policy 313
25. EPILOGUE
26. On relating religion to society and society to religion 333
27. Index 357
28. Contributors 369