Olivier Roy Livres

L'islam renvoie, à nos yeux d'Occidentaux, une image de solidité, d'identité et de dynamisme, et les islamistes eux-mêmes se félicitent de la réislamisation des sociétés musulmanes. C'est pourtant cette perspective optimiste qu'Olivier Roy met radicalement en question. Qu'il s'agisse de formes radicales ou modérées de réislamisation, toujours l'Occident est au cœur du processus. La propagande sur Internet comme l'action politique et terroriste participent de modèles d'action et de militance typiquement occidentaux. Les éléments propres aux nouvelles religiosités occidentales sont omniprésents, souvent à l'insu des acteurs islamistes : épanouissement des individus, mondialisation, bricolages des doctrines et des comportements sur fond d'inculture, attitudes sectaires. Loin d'exprimer le " choc des cultures ", les tensions liées aujourd'hui à l'islam sont le syndrome de son occidentalisation mal vécue.

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A schism has emerged between mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world (e.g. Hamas of Palestine and Hezbullah of Lebanon) and the uprooted militants who strive to establish an imaginary ummah, or Muslim community, not embedded in any particular society or territory. Roy provides a detailed comparison of these transnational movements, whether peaceful, like Tabligh Jamaat and the Islamic brotherhoods, or violent, like Al Qaeda. Neofundamentalism, he argues, is both a product and an agent of globalization.

Investigates the emergence of a militant deterritorialized Islam that has fewer links to any particular country and/or culture. This book argues that mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world have become Islamo- nationalist, recasting their political action within a national framework (e.g. the Hamas of Palestine, the Hezbullah of Lebanon).

As Europe wrangles over questions of national identity, nativism and immigration, Olivier Roy interrogates the place of Christianity, foundation of Western identity. Do secularism and Islam really pose threats to the continent's 'Christian values'? What will be the fate of Christianity in Europe?Rather than repeating the familiar narrative of decline, Roy challenges the significance of secularized Western nations' reduction of Christianity to a purely cultural force- relegated to issues such as abortion, euthanasia and equal marriage. He illustrates that, globally, quite the opposite has occurred: Christianity is now universalized, and detached from national identity. Not only has it taken hold in the Global South, generally in a more socially conservative form than in the West, but it has also 'returned' to Europe, following immigration from former colonies. Despite attempts within Europe to nationalize or even racialize it, Christianity's future is global, non-European and immigrant-as the continent's Churches well know.This short but bracing book confirms Roy's reputation as one of the most acute observers of our times. It represents a persuasive and novel vision of religion's place in national life today.

Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root. This book explores the options available to powers that hope to integrate or control these groups; and whether marginalization or homogenization will further divide believers from their culture.

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"The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French - and, consequently, secular and liberal - society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining their identities as "true believers." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society." "Roy's rare portrait of the realities of immigrant Muslim life offers a necessary alternative to the popular specter of an "Islamic threat." Supporting his arguments with his extensive research on Islamic history, sociology, and politics, Roy demonstrates the limits of our understanding of contemporary Islamic religious practice in the West and the role of Islam as a

Argues that the consequences of the 'war on terror' have conflated conflicts in the Middle East in such a way that they appear to be the expression of a widespread 'Muslim anger' against the West. This book unravels the complexity of these conflicts in order to better understand the political discontent that sustains them.