TY - BOOK AU - Roy,Olivier ED - Columbia University. ED - CIAO (Organization) TI - Secularism confronts Islam T2 - Columbia international affairs online. Books SN - 9780231511797 AV - BP65.F8 R6913 2007eb U1 - 322/.10944 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Islam KW - France KW - Islam and secularism KW - Islam and state KW - Laicism KW - Fundamentalism KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - International Relations KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Political Process KW - Political Advocacy KW - fast KW - Computer network resources KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-115) and index; Introduction: laïcité and the identity of France -- French laïcité and Islam: which is the exception? -- Islam and secularization -- The crisis of the secular state and the new forms of religiosity -- De facto secularization N2 - "The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French - and, consequently, secular and liberal - society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining their identities as "true believers." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society." "Roy's rare portrait of the realities of immigrant Muslim life offers a necessary alternative to the popular specter of an "Islamic threat." Supporting his arguments with his extensive research on Islamic history, sociology, and politics, Roy demonstrates the limits of our understanding of contemporary Islamic religious practice in the West and the role of Islam as a; Screen onto which Western societies project their own identity crisis."--Jacket UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=198811 ER -