Looking for Identity in the Muslim World:Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt;Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq;Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies;Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity Making

2006 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-542
Author(s):  
KIM SHIVELY
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
State Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
The Public Sphere

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.

Eccentric modernity? An Islamic perspective on the civilizing process and the public sphere

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article engages with Johann Arnason’s approach to the entanglements of culture and power in comparative civilizational analysis by simultaneously reframing the themes of the civilizing process and the public sphere. It comments and expands upon some key insights of Arnason concerning the work of Norbert Elias and Jürgen Habermas by adopting an ‘Islamic perspective’ on the processes of singularization of power from its cultural bases and of reconstruction of a modern collective identity merging the steering capacities and the participative ambitions of an emerging urban intelligentsia. The Islamic perspective provides insights into the interplay between civilizing processes and the modes through which cultural traditions innervate a modern public sphere. By revisiting key remarks of Arnason on Elias and Habermas, the Islamic perspective gains original contours, reflecting the search for a type of modernity that is eccentric to the mono-civilizational axis of the Western-led, global civilizing process. While this eccentric positioning entails a severe imbalance of power, it also relativizes the centrality of the modern state in the civilizing process and evidences some original traits of the public sphere in a non-Western context.

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 Religia w przestrzeni życia publicznego w regionach Europy Środkowej

Politeja ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (1(46)) ◽  
pp. 103-139
Author(s):  
Emilia Moddelmog-Anweiler
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religion In Public Life

Religion in the public life in the regions of Central Europe. Features of the Central European model For post‑communist states, which experienced programmative secularization of society, and are currently building civil society, the Western models of determining the place and role of religion in public sphere seem to be inadequate and simplistic. On the one hand, freedom of religion in this region symbolizes success of a new democratic order. On the other, the rapid pace of social, cultural and political changes causes dilemmas regarding the place of religion in public life, where religion is part of cultural, national and social identities. People are stretched between the freedom to be religious publicly, return to traditional religion and freedom of other choices. It therefore seems that, despite religious diversity and the presence of specific historical circumstances in individual countries, these societies share the perspective of determining the place of religion in the public sphere today, which is the basis of the specific features of religion in public life. The article presents an ovierview of observations and interpretations of characteristics of social practice to the presence of religion in the public sphere, which were distinquished on the basis of qualitative research conducted in Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine.

‘Not in My Backyard’: The Local Planning Process in Australia and its Impact on Minority Places of Worship

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel G. Villaroman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Australian State ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Public Sphere

Abstract This article analyses the engagement of minority religious groups with the local planning process in Australia as they try to build places of worship. Such groups oftentimes encounter opposition from local residents who are reluctant to share the public sphere with the newly arrived and less known ‘other.’ The public sphere has become a contested terrain between those who desire to preserve the status quo of the built environment and those who desire to affirm their collective identity through new religious structures. The Australian state, acting through local councils, finds itself in the middle of this contest and is tasked to resolve it. This article offers illustrative snapshots of how Australia promotes, respects and protects religious freedom, particularly its aspect concerning the ability of minority religious groups to build their own places of worship. Through case studies, this article assesses, albeit with respect to such cases only, how religious freedom is being concretised in the ‘religious’ physical landscape of Australia—that is its temples, mosques, churches, gurdwaras, mandirs and other minority places of worship.

scholarly journals “The Sisterhood is Watching”: Challenging Identity and Agency in Citizenship

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melody Viczko ◽  
Anna McClean
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Identity And Agency ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

“The Garneau Sisterhood is watching”, warns an impromptu poster in the Garneau community, following a police warning for women to take safety precautions subsequent to announcements of a serial rapist in the area. In this context, tensions exist between the individual, the state and the collective. In this interpretivist study, we invoke the lens of feminist theory to examine the relationship between identity and agency in a collective conceptualization of the citizen. Through content analysis of a sampling of public media, we present the case of the Garneau Sisterhood to consider the relationship between collective identity and agency in challenging the constraints of individualist notions of citizenship. Finally, we argue that feminist citizenship education is needed to engage the notion of collective identity and agency as a source of empowerment for students, and other citizens, to raise issues of importance in the public sphere.

Metaphors of cultural diversity at UNESCO

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irit S. Kornblit
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Do So

Abstract This paper analyses metaphors and analogies of cultural diversity at UNESCO in a discursive and rhetorical-argumentative framework, to answer the following question: How do these rhetorical devices play a legitimizing role when introducing a new keyword into the public sphere? Conventional and creative metaphors are analyzed separately to examine if they represent different legitimization strategies. Conventional metaphors and analogies include variations on treasure, heritage, and biodiversity; creative metaphors include cultural diversity as a living treasure and a Rainbow River. The findings suggest that the wealth metaphor fulfills an evaluative meliorative function, while the heritage metaphor constructs a collective identity devoid of internal conflict, thereby depoliticizing the concept of cultural diversity. The biodiversity analogy further depoliticizes cultural diversity via naturalization and the invocation of the authority of science. Legitimization is also achieved by invoking past discourse and shared knowledge, and by tapping into UNESCO’s “discursive memory.” In contrast, the creative metaphors living treasure and Rainbow River play a different argumentative role: they offer a rhetorical solution of coexistence to two contradicting views on culture; one as a static, closed entity to be protected from extinction, and the other as a changing, dynamic process. They do so by fusing both views, represented by different metaphors, into one creative metaphor.

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