H. A. Hellyer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748639472
- eISBN:
- 9780748671342
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748639472.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
The interchange between Muslims and Europe has a long and complicated history, dating back to before the idea of ‘Europe’ was born, and the earliest years of Islam. There has been a Muslim presence ...
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The interchange between Muslims and Europe has a long and complicated history, dating back to before the idea of ‘Europe’ was born, and the earliest years of Islam. There has been a Muslim presence on the European continent before, but never has it been so significant, particularly in Western Europe. With more Muslims in Europe than in many countries of the Muslim world, they have found themselves in the position of challenging what it means to be a European in a secular society of the twenty-first century. At the same time, the European context has caused many Muslims to re-think what is essential to them in religious terms in their new reality. This work analyses the prospects for a European future where pluralism is accepted within unified societies, and the presence of a Muslim community that is of Europe, not simply in it.Less
The interchange between Muslims and Europe has a long and complicated history, dating back to before the idea of ‘Europe’ was born, and the earliest years of Islam. There has been a Muslim presence on the European continent before, but never has it been so significant, particularly in Western Europe. With more Muslims in Europe than in many countries of the Muslim world, they have found themselves in the position of challenging what it means to be a European in a secular society of the twenty-first century. At the same time, the European context has caused many Muslims to re-think what is essential to them in religious terms in their new reality. This work analyses the prospects for a European future where pluralism is accepted within unified societies, and the presence of a Muslim community that is of Europe, not simply in it.
Bretton White
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781683401544
- eISBN:
- 9781683402213
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683401544.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Chapter 1 examines the blurring of distinctions between audience and actor in director Carlos Díaz’s creative staging of Las relaciones de Clara (2007) (by German playwright Dea Loher) in the musty ...
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Chapter 1 examines the blurring of distinctions between audience and actor in director Carlos Díaz’s creative staging of Las relaciones de Clara (2007) (by German playwright Dea Loher) in the musty rooms of a colonial home. Using Bersani and Phillips’s theories, the chapter investigates how a proliferation of intimacies creates a sense of sameness that is rooted in physical proximity and discomfort. This chapter shows how reimagining the possibility of physical intimacies can produce a shared hopefulness between audience, play troupe, and nation. What makes these theatrical intimacies relevant in a contemporary Cuban context is how they resist the state’s persistent attempts to fabricate its own version of a unified society.Less
Chapter 1 examines the blurring of distinctions between audience and actor in director Carlos Díaz’s creative staging of Las relaciones de Clara (2007) (by German playwright Dea Loher) in the musty rooms of a colonial home. Using Bersani and Phillips’s theories, the chapter investigates how a proliferation of intimacies creates a sense of sameness that is rooted in physical proximity and discomfort. This chapter shows how reimagining the possibility of physical intimacies can produce a shared hopefulness between audience, play troupe, and nation. What makes these theatrical intimacies relevant in a contemporary Cuban context is how they resist the state’s persistent attempts to fabricate its own version of a unified society.
