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Peter P. Mandaville is a well-known scholar of international relations and conflict studies. He is currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington DC, where he is directing a research program on Islam in Europe. He is the author of Global Political
Islam (2007) and Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma (2001), which have become a source of frequent reference. He also co-edited several volumes of essays in the fields of global social theory and Islamic studies.
While much of the public discussion of Islam in Europe today focuses on challenges of integration and security, it is possible to identify below the surface a significant shift in the ways in which younger European Muslims in particular approach questions of religious knowledge, authority, and politics.
Rather than representing the wholesale rejection of existing traditions or the emergence of entirely new currents of Islamic thought, we see simultaneously today efforts to adapt and reform modern Islamic political ideologies--such as theMuslim Brotherhood and Jama'at-i Islami trends--to the circumstances
of contemporary Europe, alongside a renewed interest in centuries-old traditions of religious scholarship--all of which find themselves expressed in new forms (popular culture, Internet, media). The social landscapes of Islam
in contemporary Europe must hence also be seen as spaces of significant intellectual and political innovation and reform.
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Date:
05/07/2009 19:30 - 05/07/2009 21:30
Event venue:
Simon-Bolivar-Saal der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- Preußischer Kulturbesitz -
Potsdamer Str. 33
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
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Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Politics, Religion, Social studies
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Entry:
04/23/2009
Sender/author:
Robert Pelzer
Department:
Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event27101
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