In dit boek geeft Sunier antwoord op de vraag wat voor religie de islam is, wie gezag heeft onder moslims, hoe moslims in het dagelijks leven met hun geloof omgaan, welke discussies er gevoerd worden en waar verschillen in opvatting en handelen vandaan komen. Gaat het om verschillende varianten van de islam? Hoe moeten we die verschillen verklaren? Niet de leer op zich staat centraal, maar de verhouding van de mens tot die leer in een steeds veranderende wereld.

Transnational Turkish Islam provides an overview of Turkish organized Islam in seven European countries. It shows how Turkish Islamic organizations have developed from typical migrant associations in the 1970s and 1980s into present-day European Islamic associations with their own cultural and religious specificities and agendas.

European Multiculturalism Revisited analyses the alleged crises of the main 'models' of multicultural societies experienced by Europe since the end of World War II, based on research conducted by local scholars in the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Germany. Each chapter provides an historical account of how the model developed and was implemented in the country in question, followed by an in-depth analysis of the factors that have led to the claim that the model has failed...