Islamophobia in Western Europe and North America : Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes.

Islamophobia in Western Europe and North America : Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes.

Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background, and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the US, have created a new research field investigating the way states and ordinary citizens react to these new phenomena...

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Main Author: Helbling, Marc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge advances in sociology.
Subjects:
Islam in mass media.
Islam > Public opinion.
Islamophobia > Europe.
Muslims > Public opinion.
Ethnic relations
Islam in mass media
Islam > Public opinion
Islamophobia
Muslims > Public opinion
Europe > Ethnic relations.
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and explaining individual attitudes; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. Islamophobia in the West: An introduction; Part 1: How to measure Islamophobia; 2. Prejudice against Muslims: Associations with personality traits and political attitudes; Part 2: The scope of Islamophobia: public debates, attitudes and reactions; 3. Assessing Islamophobia in Britain: Where do Muslims really stand?; 4. Attitudes toward Muslims in Norway; 5. Islamophobia in Sweden: Politics, representations, attitudes and experiences.
  • 6. Islamophobia in Spain? Political rhetoric rather than a social factPart 3: How to explain Islamophobia; 7. An ecological analysis of the 2009 Swiss referendum on the building of minarets; 8. Islamophobia and its explanation; 9. The aftermath of 9/11: Tolerance toward Muslims, Islamophobia and value orientations; 10. Political tolerance for Muslim practices: An intergroup perspective; 11. Revisiting Islamophobia in contemporary Britain, 2007-10; Part 4: Are Muslims different from other outgroups? Ethnocentrism and terrorism; 12. Islamophobia and the Band of Others.
  • 13. Think 'terrorist', think 'Muslim'? Social-psychological mechanisms explaining anti-Islamic prejudiceReferences; Index.

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