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Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization among Young Muslims in Scandinavia and Western Europe, edited by Mark Sedgwick

Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization among Young Muslims in Scandinavia and Western... Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization among Young Muslims in Scandinavia and Western Europe. New York/London: Routledge 2015. 296 pp. £110.00 (hardback). isbn 9781138789500.Local Muslim populations in Europe have attracted a lot of public interest in recent decades. One of the crucial questions behind this interest was whether and how Muslims can be European. Mark Sedgwick’s edited book Making European Muslims provides one of many possible answers to this question. It offers insights into the religious education and socialisation of young Muslims at home and at school. In other words, it seeks to explain how a Muslim child in Europe learns to become a Muslim. The book is structured into four parts. The first refers to Islamic religious socialisation presented in different contexts—in the family, in the family vis-à-vis school, and in mosque schools. The second part is devoted to government policies and mostly covers issues such as the place of Islam in public schools. The third part provides case studies of Muslim pupils in a variety of Danish public schools in terms of their identity management and performance of religiosity inside and outside school. The last part covers two alternative spaces of Islamic religious socialisation—private Islamic schooling and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Muslims in Europe Brill

Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization among Young Muslims in Scandinavia and Western Europe, edited by Mark Sedgwick

Górak-Sosnowska, Katarzyna
Journal of Muslims in Europe , Volume 6 (2): 3 – Dec 4, 2017
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Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization among Young Muslims in Scandinavia and Western Europe. New York/London: Routledge 2015. 296 pp. £110.00 (hardback). isbn 9781138789500.Local Muslim populations in Europe have attracted a lot of public interest in recent decades. One of the crucial questions behind this interest was whether and how Muslims can be European. Mark Sedgwick’s edited book Making European Muslims provides one of many possible answers to this question. It offers insights into the religious education and socialisation of young Muslims at home and at school. In other words, it seeks to explain how a Muslim child in Europe learns to become a Muslim. The book is structured into four parts. The first refers to Islamic religious socialisation presented in different contexts—in the family, in the family vis-à-vis school, and in mosque schools. The second part is devoted to government policies and mostly covers issues such as the place of Islam in public schools. The third part provides case studies of Muslim pupils in a variety of Danish public schools in terms of their identity management and performance of religiosity inside and outside school. The last part covers two alternative spaces of Islamic religious socialisation—private Islamic schooling and the

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