Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

 José Mapril, Tuomas Martikainen and Adil Hussain Khan



Part 1: Governing Islam and Muslims

1 The Founding of the Islamic Council of Finland

 Tuomas Martikainen

2 State and Religion in Peripheral Europe: State-Religion Relations, Corporatism and Islam in Portugal and Ireland (1970–2010)

 Luís Pais Bernardo

3 The Governance of Islamic Religious Education in Finland: Promoting “General Islam” and the Unity of All Muslims

 Tuula Sakaranaho



Part 2: Politics of Recognition

4 Concepts of Authority in Irish Islam

 Adil Hussain Khan

5 Nation-state, Citizenship and Belonging: A Socio-historical Exploration of the Role of Indigenous Islam in Greece

 Venetia Evergeti

6 Perceptions of Mis/Recognition: The Experience of Sunni Muslim Individuals in Dublin, Ireland

 Des Delaney



Part 3: Public Debates and (In)Visibility

7 Explaining the Absence of a Veil Debate: The Mediating Role of Ethno-nationalism and Public Religion in the Irish Context

 Stacey Scriver

8 Muslim Migration Intelligence and Individual Attitudes toward Muslims in Present-day Portugal

 Nina Clara Tiesler and Susana Lavado

9 From the Margins to the Fore: Muslim Immigrants in Contemporary Greece

 Panos Hatziprokopiou



Part 4: Mobilities and Belonging

10 Iraqi Diaspora and Public Space in a Multicultural Suburb in Finland

 Marko Juntunen

11 Sudanese and Somali Women in Ireland and in Finland: Material Religion and Culture in the Formation of Migrant Women’s Identities in the Diaspora

 Yafa Shanneik and Marja Tiilikainen

12 The Socio-spatial Configuration of Muslims in Lisbon

 Jennifer McGarrigle

 References

 Index

About the Author

Tuomas Martikainen, PhD, is director of the Migration Institute of Finland. His areas of interest include religion, migration and consumer society. His publications include Immigrant Religions in Local Society (2004, Åbo Akademi University Press) and Religion, Migration, Settlement (2013, Brill).



José Mapril, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and a senior researcher at CRIA-NOVA. Since 2018, he is the director of CRIA. His publications include Secularisms in a Post Secular Age (2017, Palgrave, edited with Ruy Blanes, Erin Wilson and Emerson Giumbelli) and The Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe (2013, Brill, edited with Ruy Blanes).



Adil Hussain Khan, PhD, is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Loyola University New Orleans.

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