Jocelyne cesari biography sample
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Q&A With Jocelyne Cesari: Islam and Democracy
Jocelyne Cesari was Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at HDS for the 2004-05 academic year and has served as a research associate in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University since spring 2001. Her book When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States was published in 2004 by Palgrave Macmillan. HDS staff writer Wendy McDowell sat down with Dr. Cesari to talk about the important discoveries that resulted from her years of research about Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic.
One of your central purposes in the book is to look at the immigration of Muslims to Europe and North America as "a foundational moment of new transcultural space." How is this is a different way of studying Muslims than other scholars have done in the past?
There are several, layered purposes in this book. As a scholar of contemporary Islam for several years, I have been fighting and struggling wi
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Berkley Center
Trained in political science as a specialist in Islam, Jocelyne Cesari, a Berkley Center senior fellow since 2015, has dedicated her career to the historical and contemporary study of religious belief, behavior, and belonging across a global range of faith traditions and country contexts—from secular culture in Turkey after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, to Islam in France during the 1990s, to the role of Hinduism in shaping Indian politics today. Putting religion and politics in global perspective, Cesari brings a unique outlook to the worlds of scholarship, policymaking, and popular media.
The pursuit of a more just, more inclusive world—this is a key theme underlying much of the research Cesari has conducted over the course of her career. A conversation with Cesari provides a look at the personal and professional journey leading to her most recent book, We God’s People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations (2021), which presents
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Jocelyne Cesari, What is Political Islam? (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers 2018), 232 pages. Hardcover: $65.00 | Reviewed bygd Shreya Parikh
The discontentment generated by Islamic parties in various countries in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979 and their failure in the more recent Arab Spring revolution in Egypt in 2013 has led to predictions of the decline of political Islam. Close observers of these events such as Olivier Roy (1998) and Asef Bayat (2013) have gone on to declare that we are witnessing “the failure of political Islam,” or we live in a “post-Islamist” era, with a decreasing relevance of political Islam. For Jocelyne Cesari though, political Islam as a “set of multiform and contradictory political identities” continues to remain foundational in the relationship of the state with tro as well as with its citizens (191). To understand its content and context of emergence, the book sets out on a structural and historical analysis of political inom