National identity and the politics of the ‘headscarf debate’ in Germany

Sinclair, Stefanie

doi:10.1080/14755610.2012.658424

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“…A study by Wang ( 2013 ) highlights the relationship between emotion and memory and suggests that women are better than men in recalling past negative events. In this respect, hijab as an object of disputes among Westerners who question its meanings as well as motives (Sinclair 2012 ; Al-Mahadin 2013 ; Rosenberg 2019 ) can induce negative emotions or evoke unpleasant memories among Muslim women who live in the West hence dissociation behavior.…”

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Hijab No More: A Phenomenological Study

Syahrivar

2020

J Relig Health

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The consumption of Islamic products has been discussed quite extensively in many studies, yet the opposite case which is the dissociation from Islamic products is rarely discussed. This study aims to investigate the phenomena in which Muslim women who were raised with conservative values at home countries choose to dissociate from hijab when they live in the western countries. Moreover, they become activists who discourage other Muslim women from wearing hijab. This study adopts a phenomenological research design. The results suggest that hijab dissociation is a form of compensatory mechanism aimed at minimizing self-discrepancy, restoring self-esteem, gaining personal control, reducing perceived alienation and coping with psychological trauma. This study contributes to the theoretical gap in compensatory consumption literature by linking the theory with the non-consumption of religious products.

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“…In the modern time, veiling in public space can be political matters (Sinclair 2012 ; Al-Mahadin 2013 ; Rosenberg 2019 ). It is a case where the woman’s body becomes a political arena, torn apart between secular versus religious values.…”

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Hijab No More: A Phenomenological Study

Syahrivar

2020

J Relig Health

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“…For an overview of the process and debate, see Oestreich (2004). For a discursive analysis of the debate, see Sinclair (2012).…”

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The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin

Bendixsen¹

2013

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“…Party political discourses in the legislative processes made use of the notion of German national identity in opposition to an invented Islamic threat. Through the headscarf debates, both poles have been constructed around a confrontational dichotomy in order to avoid difficulties in actually defining German national identity and to address inherent inconsistencies and contradictions within approaches to immigration and citizenship law (Sinclair, 2012, p. 29).…”

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Overcoming essentialisation: a comparative study of ‘living-together’ conceptions

Patrignani¹

2017

International Journal of Law in Context

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This paper compares two judgments of constitutional courts (French and German) assessing the constitutionality of statutes concerning veil-wearing and focuses on the underlying conceptions of ‘living together’. This means that what is actually compared is the self-understanding of the respective majority in the two societies as stated in the decisions. This is done by disassembling the concept of ‘living together’ into three elements: the notion of the individual, the meaning of belonging to the national community and the space accorded to religion in public. Each section of this paper examines one of these elements as they are entailed in the judgments and positions them critically within the respective legal cultural and historical contexts. The main aim of this paper is methodological in nature and is namely to show how comparative legal cultural studies can avoid essentialisation and rather highlight the complexity of every cultural context.

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National identity and the politics of the ‘headscarf debate’ in Germany

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Hijab No More: A Phenomenological Study

Hijab No More: A Phenomenological Study

The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin

Overcoming essentialisation: a comparative study of ‘living-together’ conceptions

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