(Il)liberal Europe: Islamophobia, Modernity and Radicalization

Natalie J. Doyle is Deputy Director of the Monash European and EU Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and part of the editorial collective for the journal Social Imaginaries. She has researched European social and political thought, classical and contemporary, with particular reference to interpretations of modernity. She is particularly interested in the place of religion in modernity.Irfan Ahmad, is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Studies in Gottingen, Germany. He is the author, most recently, of Religion As Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking From Mecca to the Marketplace and founding co-editor of the Journal of Religious and Political Practice.

• Introduction: Islamophobia, European Modernity and Contemporary Illiberalism 1. ‘Alien Religiosity’ in Three Liberal European States 2. Swiss Shock: Minaret Rejection, European Values, and the Challenge of Tolerant Neutrality 3. Something Varied in the State of Denmark: Neo-nationalism, Anti-Islamic Activism, and Street-level Thuggery 4. In Defense of Ho(s)tels: Islamophobia, Domophilia, Liberalism 5. Islam and the Quest for a European Secular Identity: From Sovereignty through Solidarity to Immunity 6. Islam, Depoliticization and the European Crisis of Democratic Legitimacy 7. Radicalization in Prison: The French Case 8. Mohamed Merah: From Petty Criminal to Neojihadist

"(Il)Liberal Europe’s main contribution resides in unraveling the paradox of a usually apprehended liberal Europe turning illiberal in relation to how European policymakers think and address Muslims... The novelty of Doyle and Ahmad’s volume, however, resides in combining empirically informed theoretical discussions with rich empirical cases outlining Europe’s reaction to the problematization of Islam and Muslims." - Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, Politics, Religion and Ideology 19(3)