Werner Schiffauer
Werner Schiffauer is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. He has written and edited books on rural and urban Turkey, on Turkish migrants in Germany, on Islamism in Germany, and on foreigners in the urban context. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Ethos - Journal of Anthropology and of the Council of Migration Research. Recent articlesDemocratic culture and extremist IslamAre Islam and democracy incompatible? The evolution of a radical Turkish Islamic group in Germany suggests that the pursuit of fundamentalist goals can itself create the space for a rational appraisal of tradition. By seeking truth in origin and scripture rather than history, successive generations of Islamists may be drawn even despite themselves towards a more flexible commitment to a network society of social individuals. This may not yet be democracy; but it is reformation.
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