scholarly journals The public sphere and Muslim identities

2002 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
DALE F. EICKELMAN ◽  
ARMANDO SALVATORE
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Coercive Power ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
Muslim Identities

The historical and contemporary development of certain informal and formal articulations of Muslim social and political identities and forms of association in Muslim-majority and Arab societies has facilitated the emergence of a public sphere and limited the coercive power of state authority. This article suggests how a greater focus on religious ideas and forms of association can enhance the concept of the public sphere so that it better accounts for developments in these societies and in European societies themselves.

scholarly journals A Review of the Halal Poultry Slaughtering from Welfare and Legal Perspectives: Analysis of Research Results

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Karrar Imad Abdulsahib Al-Shammari
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Animal Cruelty ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Review ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Controversial Aspect

The subject of halal slaughtering is one of the most widely discussed issues of animal cruelty and animal welfare in the public sphere. The discrepancy in understanding the contemporary and religious laws pertaining to animal slaughtering does not fully publicize to Islamic and Muslim majority countries especially with respect to interpreting the use of stunning in animals. The electrical stunning is the cheapest, easiest, safest, and most suitable method for slaughtering that is widespread and developed. However, stunning on head of poultry before being slaughtered is a controversial aspect among the Islamic sects due to regulations of the European Union and some other countries. The current review highlights the instructions of halal slaughtering, legal legislation, and the effect of this global practice on poultry welfare and the quality of produced meat.

scholarly journals Occupations and Prisons: Writing, Thought and Affected Spaces Apropos Patricia Heras, Marina Garcés and Mireia Sallarès

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margalida Pons
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Shared Spaces ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
The Public Sphere

Starting from texts by poet and activist Patricia Heras, philosopher Marina Garcés, and artist Mireia Sallarès, this article will focus on the affective value of spaces in the public sphere. Heras, Garcés and Sallarès converge in an emotional appropriation of shared spaces that generates new forms of commitment to the community. Their works also constitute synergic affective atmospheres that confer value on anonymous or stigmatised subjects. Space and emotion are thus united in emotopes that, starting from individual experiences, transcend them to become incipient symbols of the transformation of a city, the resistance to the state authority or the survival of a country wounded by wars.

scholarly journals The Non-Arab Woman Ethnographer as Student of the World

1970 ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Alisa Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Arab Woman ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Moroccan Women ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arab Societies

The status of Moroccan women in the public sphere is undergoing dramatic change. Last September (2002), 35 women won seats in the Moroccan 325-member House of Representatives, whereas previously, there were only two (ArabicNews 2002). This trend toward increasing visibility challenges long-held notions about the gendering of public space in Arab societies.

Habermas, Islam, and theorizing the “Other”

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Sheedy
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Radical Islam ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Muslim Identities

Over the last twenty years, Jürgen Habermas has been at the forefront of debates involving religion in the public sphere. In the wake of 9/11 he has responded to the problems of terrorism, “radical Islam,” and the so-called Muslim question in Europe, attempting to align these issue with his broader theories of deliberative democracy and postsecularism. Although Habermas aims for an inclusive model of deliberation in the public sphere, I argue that his reliance on macro theories of secularization and modernization reproduce an ideal of secular liberal democracy as the standard by which to think about various “Others,” including Muslims. As a result, I claim that he ends up reproducing a soft variety of the “clash of civilizations” thesis by failing to account for the complexity of Muslim identities. In conclusion, I look at alternative models that are better able to historicize and contextualize “Islam” in the past and present, and point to significant gaps that must be filled if his proposals are to be taken seriously.

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