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Islamic Britain
Philip Lewis
其他書名
Religion, Politics and Identity Among British Muslims
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 2002-03-29
主題
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Philosophy / General
Political Science / General
Religion / Comparative Religion
Religion / Islam / General
Social Science / General
Social Science / Minority Studies
Social Science / Islamic Studies
ISBN
0755615670
9780755615674
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=b2rREAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From the 1980s Britain's large Muslim community, a long established but little noticed group, suddenly became visible as controversies involving the education and dress of Muslim schoolgirls, the Rushdie affair and the Gulf War excited huge media interest. Caricatures and misconceptions began to spread and, with political Islam on the march in many Middle Eastern countries, fears of British Muslims becoming a bridgehead in the West for the establishment of an Islamic theocracy began to loom in the popular imagination. How do British Muslims really think about themselves, about their religion and their politics? What dilemmas do they face as they give up the "myth of return" that sustained first-generation immigrants and struggle to define a British Islam? In this important book, the first major study of British Muslims, Philip Lewis deals with the reality behind distorted media images through a rich, first-hand account of the Muslim community in Bradford - the city which became the epicentre of British Muslim anger and resistance to "The Satanic Verses".