Islam in the West: Key Issues in Multiculturalism - Couverture rigide

Farrar, Max; Valli, Yasmin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0230238742 ISBN 13 : 9780230238749

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

This book contributes to understanding of the contemporary relationship between Muslims and the Western societies in which they live, focusing particularly on the UK. Chapters reflect on the nature of multiculturalism, as well as a wide range of specific aspects of daily life, including religious dialogue, gender, freedom of speech and politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

MAX FARRAR Sociologist and Emeritus Professor, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. His research concentrates on the social, economic, cultural and political issues that have arisen in the neighbourhoods in British cities in which minority ethnic populations have settled in the past 50 years. His teachign has similarly concentrated on issues of race and racism.

SIMON ROBINSON Professor of Applied and Professional Ethics, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, Associate Director at the Ethics Centre of Excellence, and Visiting Fellow in Theology, University of Leeds. He was ordained into the Church of England priesthood in 1978 and entered university chaplaincy, developing research and teaching in areas of applied ethics.

YASMIN VALLI Principal Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University. She teaches in the Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education and is also a member of the OFSTED team for Primary and the Independent Sector. She led a national project to promote the teaching profession amongst black and minority ethnic communities. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the National Teaching Awards Trust. IN 2003 she was awarded the Windrush Award for Education Champion.

PAUL WETHERLY Reader in Politics at Leeds Metropolitan University, where his teaching includes a course in political theory. His research interests include multiculturalism, state theory and Marxism. Wetherly is editor of The Business Environment: Themes andIssues (with Dorron Otter) and Class, Power and the State in Capitalist Society: Essays on Ralph Miliband (with Clyde Barrow and Peter Burnham).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0230238742
• ISBN 13: 9780230238749
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 299
• Éditeur: Robinson S., Wetherly P.
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