Headscarf Controversy
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Headscarf Controversy
Secularism and Freedom of Religion
Elver, Hilal (Visiting Distinguished Professor, Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Oxford University Press Inc
04/2014
288
Mole
Inglês
9780199367931
15 a 20 dias
Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves. Examining legal and political debates in Turkey, several European countries including France and Germany, and the United States, Elver shows the troubling exclusion of pious Muslim women from the public sphere in the name of secularism, democracy, liberalism, and women's rights.
I. Point of Departure ; Part 1: Turkey ; II. Nature of the Headscarf Controversy in Turkey: Popular Discourse ; III. Understanding a Complex History ; IV. The Role of the European Court of Human Rights ; Part 2: Europe and the United States ; V. Anti-Islamic Discourses in the West ; VI. France ; VII Germany ; VIII. The United States ; IX. Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves. Examining legal and political debates in Turkey, several European countries including France and Germany, and the United States, Elver shows the troubling exclusion of pious Muslim women from the public sphere in the name of secularism, democracy, liberalism, and women's rights.
I. Point of Departure ; Part 1: Turkey ; II. Nature of the Headscarf Controversy in Turkey: Popular Discourse ; III. Understanding a Complex History ; IV. The Role of the European Court of Human Rights ; Part 2: Europe and the United States ; V. Anti-Islamic Discourses in the West ; VI. France ; VII Germany ; VIII. The United States ; IX. Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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