The headscarf controversy secularism and freedom of religion

Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the escalating controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves. Examining legal and political debates in Turkey, several European countries including France and Germany, and the United States, Elver shows the troubling exclusion of pious Muslim...

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Main Author: Elver, Hilal
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2012, c2012
Series:Religion and global politics / Religion and global politics
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