Representing Muslims: Religion, Ethnicity and the Politics of Identity

by Sean McLoughlin

Events in Britain since the Salman Rushdie affair have highlighted the extent to which British Muslims are increasingly making claims on their status as citizens of the nation-state - quite literally renegotiating the boundaries of what it means to belong. This work explores the tensions and the contradictions facing ethnic minorities in a multicultural society, particularly when those communities assert rights that the majority would often prefer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745314376
• ISBN13: 9780745314372
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 192 Pages