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By Jorgen Nielsen

Little has been released in English approximately Islam in Denmark even if curiosity grew after the cartoons trouble of 2005-6. Danish study at the topic is huge, and this quantity goals to give the most fresh to a global viewers. whereas a number of the conditions which practice throughout western Europe — the historical past of immigration and refugees, cost, the expansion of Muslim firms and overseas hyperlinks, demanding situations of social and cultural stumble upon, and extra lately Islam as a safety factor — additionally follow in Denmark, there also are adjustments. A small, compact nation without contemporary imperial heritage, Denmark's unified institutional, non secular and social tradition could make it tricky for newbies to combine. The fourteen chapters during this booklet hide the subject in 3 elements. the 1st half bargains with the background and records of immigration and payment, and the spiritual institutional responses, Christian and Muslim. half appears to be like at particular concerns and the interplay with the constructing nationwide debate approximately id and minority. eventually half 3 offers the event of 4 energetic contributors within the strategies of integration: adolescence paintings and sanatorium chaplaincy, interreligious discussion, and the perspectives of an imam.

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