Race, Religion and Conversion in the New Europe<\/p>\n
ESRA \u00d6ZY\u00dcREK<\/strong> Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. Being German, Becoming Muslim explores how Germans come to Islam within this antagonistic climate, how they manage to balance their love for Islam with their society's fear of it, how they relate to immigrant Muslims, and how they shape debates about race, religion, and belonging in today's Europe. Welcome address and introduction: Moderation Race, Religion and Conversion in the New Europe ESRA ÖZYÜREKAssociate Professor and Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studiesat the European Institute, London School of Economics. Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. Being German, Becoming Muslim explores how Germans come to Islam within this antagonistic climate, how they manage to balance their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3743,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[],"class_list":["post-3742","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Associate Professor and Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
at the European Institute, London School of Economics.<\/p>\n
Esra \u00d6zy\u00fcrek looks at how mainstream society marginalises converts and questions their national loyalties. In turn, converts try to disassociate themselves from migrants of Muslim-majority countries and promote a denationalised Islam untainted by Turkish or Arab traditions.
Being German, Becoming Muslim provides a fresh window into the connections and tensions stemming from a growing religious phenomenon in Germany and beyond.<\/p>\n
Patricia Kahane, president of the Karl Kahane Foundation, member of board, Bruno Kreisky Forum<\/p>\n
Bashir Bashir, Senior lecturer in the dept. of sociology, political science and communication at the Open University Jerusalem, director of the Alternatives to Partition research group at the Bruno Kreisky Forum.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"