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Islam and Citizenship Education pp 95–110Cite as

To be Muslim and Swiss

Children of Muslim Immigrants from South East Europe and the Politics of Belonging

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Recently Annalisa Frisina has outlined two dominant frames (Goffman, 1974) concerning the role of Muslims in Europe’s multicultural states. On one hand, we have the security frame – Muslims are subject to broad suspicions of terrorism. On the other hand, there is the culturalist frame – Islam is portrayed as the religious and cultural opposite of the West, both are seen as uniform blocks existing outside of history (Frisina, 2010, 560). Talal Asad has emphasized this second frame by characterising Europe as a narrative that excludes Islam, with liberal and reactionary political voices largely coinciding in this regard (Asad, 2003, 164).

This chapter was first published in German in Tsantsa, the journal of the Swiss Ethnological Society (cf. Allenbach 2012). For this English translation the text was slightly revised by the author.

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    Dr. phil. Brigit Allenbach

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    Ednan Aslan

  2. Theology Dept., Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Marcia Hermansen

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Allenbach, B. (2015). To be Muslim and Swiss. In: Aslan, E., Hermansen, M. (eds) Islam and Citizenship Education. Wiener Beiträge zur Islamforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08603-9_7

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