Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience

This Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion contributes cases of encounters, diversities and distances to an emerging Jewish-Muslim Studies field. The scholarly essays address both discourses about and lived experiences of minorities in contemporary French, German and UK cities. The authors explore how particular modes of governance and secularism shape individual and collective identities while new technologies re-make interfaith encounters. This volume shows that Middle Eastern and North African pasts and presents weigh on European realities, examines how the pull of Jewish intellectual history is felt by a new generation of Muslim scholars and activists, and uncovers how Orthodox communities negotiate living side by side.

Samuel Sami Everett, PhD (SOAS, University of London), is Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge/MPI-MMG. His most recent book is Jewish-Muslim Interactions: Performing Cultures between North Africa and France (2020, Liverpool University Press) with Rebekah Vince.
Ben Gidley, PhD is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. Gidley has published on urban citizenship and belonging. His most recent book is Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe - A Shared Story? (2017, Palgrave) with James Renton.
Contributors are: Elisabeth Becker, Sultan Doughan, Yulia Egorova, Samuel Sami Everett, Ben Gidley, Samia Hathroubi, Hanane Karimi, Ben Kasstan, Dani Kranz, Nadia Malinovich, Nonna Mayer, Alexander-Kenneth Nagel, Dekel Peretz, Ruth Sheldon, Vincent Tiberj, Ufuk Topkara.