Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach

1. Introduction, G. Marranci. Part I -Debating Islam, Secularism, Democracy and Muslim Polity. 2. Islam, Public Religions and the Secularization Debate, B.S. Turner.3. Muslim Thinkers and the Debate on Secularism and laïcité, B. De Poli.4. Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Tariq Ramadan on secularisation, G. Larsson.5. Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century, H. Jawad.6. Moving out of Kazanistan: Liberal Theory and Muslim contexts, A.A. Jamal.7. Muslim Modernity: Poetics, Politics, and Metaphysics, M. Ashraf Raja.8. Turkish Secular Muslim Identity on Display in Europe, H. Gurkas.9. Hidden Bodies in Islam: Secular Muslim Identities in Modern (and Premodern) Societies, R.C. Martin.Part II - Secularization and Dynamics of Muslim Lives in Glocalised Contexts.10. Contentions in the Making: Discussing Secularism among Scottish Muslims, J.F. Caraballo-Resto.11. Muslim Women's Narratives on Religious Identification in a Polarising Dutch Society, M. Buitelaar.12. Hamburg, Muslims and Imams: the challenge of secularism, E, Knoblauch & W. Eden-Fleig.13. American Muslim Women: narrative of identity and globalisation, M.G. Hickey.14. A state of Islam: Modernity and Muslim Life in 21st Century Australia, N. Bahfen.15. The Search for Shared Idioms: Contesting views of laiklik within the Turkish Constitutional Court, S.Yildirim.16. Conclusion, G.Marranci.

Gabriele Marranci is an Associate Professor and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He is the founding editor of the journal Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, and the book series (with Prof. Bryan Turner) Muslims in Global Societies, and also author of Jihad Beyond Islam, The Anthropology of Islam and Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism. He is the author of the blog Islam, Muslims and an Anthropologists.