The Liberal-Secular Matrix of Integration Amir-Moazami, Schirin creator author. GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz editor. Peter, Frank editor. text uk 2024 2024 monographic eng viii, 195 pages : 23 cm "This book interrogates the patterns and discursive structures that have generated the seeming urgency of Muslims' integration. Focusing on Germany, it problematizes the grounds on which politics of integration are justified and reasoned upon, and thereby investigates divergent operations of power vis-à-vis Muslims and Islam in a formally liberal-secular society. The integration paradigm in Germany has been predicated on an imperial knowledge regime, in which Islam figures as the external friend or enemy of an imagined Christian secular. This book analyzes three kinds of integration practices as symptomatic sites for the multifaceted dimensions of power in this paradigm: the scientific measurement of Muslims' degrees of integration which are correlated with their degrees of religiosity; the politics of recognition promoted by state-organized dialogue with Muslims; and the threat of sanction, found in the regulations of citizenship and explicitly in citizenship tests. Centrally, the book argues that the paradigm of integration navigates between universalist claims and particularistic-racial and religious-reenactments of a secular nation-state framework at moments in which this very framework is crumbling."-- Provided by publisher general Schirin Amir-Moazami ; Series Editors: Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Frank Peter Includes index. Bibliography: pages 170-186 Social integration Muslims Germany Social integration Germany 305.800943 9781350266414 PPAK 260127 20260127124220.0 eng