Overview
- Provides a clear analysis of the religious networks of Turkish origin communities in Belgium
- Makes a significant contribution to research on religious mobilisation in diasporic communities
- Demonstrates how local-level analysis as crucial in understanding how Islam takes shape in different settings, contexts and periods
Part of the book series: New Directions in Islam (NDI)
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About this book
Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders, Islam and Turks in Belgium examines the interdependence between Muslim community and association.
With a focus on social groups, religious structures and circles within Turkish populations, this book demonstrates how communal and associative movements operate through a combination of relationships of proximity and distance. Proximity is a way in which Muslim organisations establish religious, social, and cultural ties with communities. Distance, on the other hand, takes into account social, historical, and political elements from abroad, and refers to the relationship with the Muslim world more broadly. As this reciprocal web of relations gives rise to Islamic mobilisations, it leads to the emergence or persistence of different figures of authority within associations and communities who articulate traditional, charismatic, and bureaucratic legitimacies.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of religion, migration, race, ethnicity and Islamic studies.
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Book Title: Islam and Turks in Belgium
Book Subtitle: Communities and Associations
Authors: Mehmet Orhan
Series Title: New Directions in Islam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34655-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34654-6Published: 24 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34657-7Published: 24 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34655-3Published: 23 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-2991
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 100
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religion and Society, Sociology of Religion, Islam, Politics and Religion, Comparative Religion, Secularism