Integrating Different Pasts, Avoiding Different Futures? Recent Conflicts about Islamic Religious Practice and Their Judicial Solutions  

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Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Time & Society vol. 13 no. 1 (Mar. 2006), page 51–70.
Topik: Islam; law; multiculturalism; simultaneity; social integration
Fulltext: 51TAS131.pdf (108.98KB)

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In several European countries there have been judicial decisions relating to the religious practice of Muslim immigrants: Law suits about headscarves in public schools and ritual slaughter are prominent examples. When issues of religious difference are being treated at the Supreme Court level, this indicates a problem of social integration in a growingly multicultural society. In this article such decisions are interpreted as an effort to integrate references to a foreign religious past while avoiding references to a future that might arise from it. Through this, the unstructured and conflicting simultaneity of different religious pasts and presents is shaped into a structured 'simultaneity of the non-simultaneous'.

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