Chapter: Transformations in Muslim claims and collective mobilization efforts in Western Europe
Brigitte Maréchal, Ghaliya Djelloul
Book: Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West
European Islam has provided the source of varied research since the early 1980s, following a wave of immigration and the emergence of Muslim communities at the heart of multiple socio-economic, political and cultural transformations of European societies. Based on this literature, we shed light on the structural trajectories of various communities and analyze the major lines of influence of the militant investments of these European citizens, generation after generation. All spheres of activities taken together, we retrace the evolution of the role and forms of religiosity revindicated in parallel with the symbolic construction of the system of Islam in both imaginaries and European social spaces.