Public Renderings of Islam and the Jihadi Threat: Political, Social, and Religious Critique in Civil Society in Flanders, Belgium

Nella van den Brandt

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-43726-2_6

Public Renderings of Islam and the Jihadi Threat: Political, Social, and Religious Critique in Civil Society in Flanders, Belgium

Nella van den Brandt

University of Utrecht

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Abstract

Contemporary political-public concerns with connections between Islam and terrorist violence in West-European societies contribute to ‘the Muslim question’, that is, the construction of Muslims, Islam and Muslimness as essentially ‘different’ from Western culture and society. This chapter focuses on 2014–2015 instances of Flemish public renderings of the ‘jihadi threat’ and explores counter-voices emerging from small initiatives in civil society. The counter-voices are assessed for the ways in which they respond to ‘the Muslim question’ and as such create space for the construction of various forms of agency, religious/secular subjectivity, morality, and citizenship, for Muslims as well as non-Muslims. Moreover, the counter-voices are considered as local actors of religious critique/theory of religion.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?
Subtitle of host publication	Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective
Editors	Jose Mapril, Ruy Blanes, Emerson Giumbelli, Erin Wilson
Publisher	Palgrave McMillan
Pages	107-146
Number of pages	40
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-43726-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-43725-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43726-2_6
Publication status	Published - 25 Feb 2017
Externally published	Yes

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van den Brandt, N. (2017). Public Renderings of Islam and the Jihadi Threat: Political, Social, and Religious Critique in Civil Society in Flanders, Belgium. In J. Mapril, R. Blanes, E. Giumbelli, & E. Wilson (Eds.), Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?: Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective (pp. 107-146 ). Palgrave McMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43726-2_6

Public Renderings of Islam and the Jihadi Threat: Political, Social, and Religious Critique in Civil Society in Flanders, Belgium. / van den Brandt, Nella.
Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?: Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective. ed. / Jose Mapril; Ruy Blanes; Emerson Giumbelli; Erin Wilson. Palgrave McMillan, 2017. p. 107-146 .

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van den Brandt, N 2017, Public Renderings of Islam and the Jihadi Threat: Political, Social, and Religious Critique in Civil Society in Flanders, Belgium. in J Mapril, R Blanes, E Giumbelli & E Wilson (eds), Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?: Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective. Palgrave McMillan, pp. 107-146 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43726-2_6

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