The Museum Caught in a Maelstrom of Narratives: Exhibiting Islam in Europe

It is not hard to argue that the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent horrific violent acts that have been carried out in the name of Islam in cities like, for example, Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Nice or Stockholm have all had a serious impact on public perceptions...

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Published in:Bulletin for the study of religion
Main Author: Larsson, Göran 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2019]
In: Bulletin for the study of religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Museums / Islam / Culture / Narrative (Social sciences) / Inclusion (Sociology) / Exclusion
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B narratives of inclusion and exclusion
B Islam
B Islamic arts
B Europe
B Museums
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Summary:It is not hard to argue that the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent horrific violent acts that have been carried out in the name of Islam in cities like, for example, Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Nice or Stockholm have all had a serious impact on public perceptions of Islam and Muslims in the West. One way of understanding the outcome of these processes is to argue that they have contributed to and produced and strengthened what Riem Spielhaus and I call narratives of inclusion and exclusion (Larsson and Spielhaus 2013, 2017). In this article I will use narratives of inclusion and exclusion as a backdrop and heuristic tool for analysing and discussing the impacts of these two grand ideal-type narratives on museums planning to display so-called Islamic artefacts.
ISSN:2041-1871
Contains:Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/bsor.37651