Title Amplifying Islam in the European soundscape : religious pluralism and secularism in the Netherlands / Pooyan Tamimi Arab.

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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Islam of the global West
	Islam of the global West.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Public manifestations of Islam remain fiercely contested across the Global West. Studies to date have focused on the visual presence of Islam - the construction of mosques or the veiling of Muslim women. Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape is the first book to add a sonic dimension to analyses of the politics of Islamic aesthetics in Europe. Sound does not respect public/private boundaries, and people experience sound viscerally. As such, the public amplification of the azan, the call to prayer, offers a unique opportunity to understand what is at stake in debates over religious toleration and secularism. The Netherlands were among the first European countries to allow the amplifcation of the azan in the 1980s, and Pooyan Tamimi Arab uses this as a case study embedded in a broader history of Dutch religious pluralism where, up until recently, a Protestant hegemony demanded silent piety from members of other religions, especially Catholics. The book offers a pointed critique of social theories that regard secularism as all-encompassing.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Introduction -- "A minaret of light?" : transducing the azan -- A history of public worship : from procession prohibition to amplified azan -- Conflicting secularisms : the constitutional protection of the azan and nativism -- Regulating nostalgias : azan negotiations in a Dutch town -- Epilogue.
Local Note	Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access
Subject	Adhan -- Netherlands.
	Sound -- Social aspects -- Netherlands.
	Loudness -- Social aspects -- Netherlands.
	Islam -- Netherlands.
	Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies.
	Islamic life & practice.
	Islam.
	RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
	Adhan. (OCoLC)fst01742302
	Islam. (OCoLC)fst00979776
	Netherlands. (OCoLC)fst01204034
Other Form:	Print version: Tamimi Arab, Pooyan. Amplifying Islam in the European soundscape 9781474291439 (DLC) 2016039052 (OCoLC)946903562
ISBN	9781474291453 (electronic book)
	1474291457 (electronic book)
	9781474291439 (hardback)
	1474291430 (hardback)
	9781474291446
	1474291449
	9781474291460
	1474291465
	1474291457

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