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Intro -- Radicalized Loyalties -- Imprint -- CONTENTS -- NOTE TO THE READER -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE CALL OF THE GROUND -- 1 COMMON HISTORIES -- 2 ON THE MARGINS OF THE CITY -- 3 RECONVERSIONS -- 4 WAR AND PEACE -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- index.

West European countries face social problems linked to immigration issues. The most exposed community of immigrants comes from the Muslim world, bringing to the West its own religious and social tradition. Such issues, however, are not unilateral. The immigrated Muslim community has to find solution to the same problem, which is usually seen from a different point of view. Media plays an important role in solving integration issues and EU member states have adopted television and radio as an integral part of European integration strategy. National governments nevertheless comply with the EU recommendations only until a certain degree. On the other hand, although on a smaller scale, the immigrated Muslim communities have started to use the same means to strengthen weakened ties between members of the Ummah in hijra and to confirm proper identity in the minority position. While the States use mostly public national media, Muslim communities try to get access at least to the local televisions or radios. Such initiatives aim mostly at successful integration without assimilation into secular Western society. However, many actors impede reaching this goal – also in the same field of media, like transnational Islamic television providers transmitting via satellite from different European cities or private TV program producers reflecting deliberately in their shots outdated Western prejudices toward Islam.

The cultural values of sundry nations (N = 75) are compared to determine whether Samuel Huntington's (1996) class of civilizations theory is capable of accounting for cultural differences between countries. An overview of Huntington's three central assertions, eg, cultural values in disparate societies are the products of long-established traditions representative of a larger, broader civilization, is presented. Consequently, it is claimed that if Huntington's theory is valid, then differences in political values between Western & Islamic societies would function as the strongest clash between civilizations. Data collected in the 1995-2001 waves of the World Values Survey that measured different societies' attitudes toward Muslim values were analyzed to evaluate Huntington's multifaceted theory. Several findings are reported: minimal differences between Western & Islamic societies' political values emerged; support for religious authority in Islamic societies was stronger than such support in Western nations; & differences in Western & Islamic societies' attitudes toward gender equality & sexual liberalization were more severe than any other measure of difference. Consequently, it is concluded that the study challenges Huntington's thesis since attitudes toward sexuality & gender equity, not political values, are the strongest differences between Western & Islamic societies. 6 Tables, 5 Figures, 1 Appendix, 30 References. J. W. Parker

Intro -- Author Biographies -- Introduction -- Part I Belonging and Identity among Australian Muslims -- 1 Muslim Migration to Australia and the Question of Identity and Belonging -- 2 Young Australian Muslims: Social Ecology and Cultural Capital -- 3 Islam and Indigenous Populations in Australia and New Zealand1 -- Part II Muslims and the Challenges of Inclusion -- 4 Social Cohesion and Social Capital: The Experience of Australian Muslim Families in Two Communities -- 5 'Hoops' and 'Bridges': Muslims and the 'Australian Way of Life' -- 6 Discursive Integration and Muslims in Australia -- Part III Muslim Representations in Public Discourse -- 7 The Islamic Veil and the Limits of Legislative Intervention -- 8 The Vicious Cycle of Stereotyping: Muslims in Europe and Australia -- 9 How Muslims and Islam Are Perceived in Australian Public, Private and Religious Schools: A National Survey -- Bibliography -- Index.