Governing Muslims and Islam in Contemporary Germany

Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar is a Research Officer in the project “Countering Islamophobia Through the Development of Best Practice in the Use of Counter-Narratives in EU Member States”, funded by the Directorate-General Justice of the European Commission. He received a PhD in Sociology from the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsIntroductionRace, Religion, and the StateThe German Islam ConferencePart 1: Figuring the Past—on the Muslim QuestionIntroduction to Part 11 Who are these Muslims? About the Past and the New Orient1.1 About the New Orient1.2 Canvassing Muslim Life in Germany1.3 Can Anyone Wave a German Flag? Youth, Race, Gender, and Nationalism2 Becoming a Problem2.1 Problematic Ontologies2.2 The Narration of a Problem2.3 Gender Justice in the Swimming PoolPart 2: Reconfiguring the Present—Integration as the AnswerIntroduction to Part 23 Integration3.1 Integration as Assimilation3.2 Structural and Cognitive Integration3.3 Emotional Integration3.4 Social Integration or How to Re-socialize Muslims4 Integration, Security, and Prevention4.1 Defending German Society4.2 Trust and Transparency4.3 Responsibility and Togetherness4.4 Suffering Incorporation5 The Glossary of the Conflictive Present5.1 The Social Polarization of Germany5.2 A Polarized Society: “Muslim anti-Semitism”, “Islamism”, and “Hostility against Muslims”Part 3: Projecting Germanness into the Future—Tolerance and ImamsIntroduction to Part 36 The Tolerant Future6.1 The Tolerant Germans6.2 Ten Muslims teaching tolerance to the Muslim community7 Secular Imams and Secular Muslims for a Secular Future7.1 The Muslim Subjects of the Future7.2 Imams7.3 Secular MuslimsEpilogue: The Time of Race, Racial TimesBibliography