Scotland's Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity

ISBN-13: 9781474427234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str.

Peter Hopkins

Opis

Between the 2001 and 2011, the Muslim population of Scotland increased by nearly eighty percent. The youthfulness of Scotland's Muslim community means this population is likely to continue to grow in size. Yet, Scotland's Muslim community does not feature much at all in research about 'Muslims in Britain': at best, Scotland is mentioned in passing, and at worst, generalisations are made about 'British Muslims' based on the assumption that Muslims in Scotland have the same experiences to Muslims in England.
However, in the last ten years or so, research has started to give specific attention to the everyday lives, identities and experiences of Scotland's Muslims. This collection brings together a lot of this research and, with contributions from leading and emerging scholars in the field, explores the lives, political engagements and social practices of Scotland's Muslim communities.

Spis treści

1. INTRODUCTION; Scotland’s Muslims: Early settlement, current context and research themes, Peter Hopkins; 2. HEALTH; The health profile of Muslims in Scotland, Maria Kristiansen and Aziz Sheikh; 3. EDUCATION; Muslims and education outcomes, Elisabet Weedon and Sheila Riddell; 4. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; Young Muslims’ political interests and political participations in Scotland, Robin Finlay, Peter Hopkins and Gurchathen Sanghera; 5. GENDER AND MIGRATION; The role of the ‘other’ woman in shaping the subjectivities of recent Muslim migrant women to Scotland, Rebecca Syswerda; 6. SEXUALITY; Scottish Muslim gay men and the troubling intersection of sexuality and religion, Asifa Siraj; 7. YOUNG PEOPLE; Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship, Katherine Botterill, Gurchathen Sanghera and Peter Hopkins; 8. GENERATIONAL RELATIONS; Gender and generational relations for Muslim women in Scotland, Hengameh Ashraf-Emami; 9. HERITAGE; Feeling Scottish and being Muslim: Findings from the Colourful Heritage Project, Omar Shaikh and Stefano Bonino; 10. MULTICULTURALISM; Multiculturalism and Scotland:‘Bringing the outside into the middle’, Nasar Meer; 11. MEDIA Muslim relations with the mainstream media in a Scottish context, Michael B. Munnik; 12. REPRESENTATION Representing Islam at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Fayaz S. Alibhai; 13. INTEGRATION; Halal Scots: Muslims’ social integration in Scotland, Reza Bagheri.