T Sunier
Biographic Data
| ID | 13159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Sunier |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Sunier |
| SIGNATURE | SUNIER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4295-6065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
When bureaucracies meet: The governance of Islam in Western Europe
Trust and Mistrust among European Muslims: Afterword
This article addresses the current crisis of trust among Muslims in Europe, with a particular focus on the situation in the Netherlands. Trust is generally understood as a firm belief that a desired circumstance, the control of which is beyond one’s own power, will occur, or that actors will behave according to our expectations. It can be seen as having roughly three dimensions: the relation between individual actors and private organisations or …
Interrogating Muslims: The Liberal-Secular Matrix of Integration, written by Schirin Amir-Moazami
Authoritative Landscapes: The Making of Islamic Authority among Muslims in Europe
This special issue deals with Islamic authority-making among Muslims of migrant background in predominantly Western Europe. Religious authority is persuasive power in religious matters, regarding issues of knowledge and institutional competence, and of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics. The seven articles in this special issue address some of the manifold ways in which Islamic authority comes about. They show that authority shoul…
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media
Social media contributions surrounding the Charlie Hebdo attacks have been key in the creation and evolution of the image of Islam online. While the attacks were seen as an affront to French values and ways of life, online exchanges have traveled around the globe. Especially with social media platforms, such as Twitter and Instagram, offering immediate translations of captions has increased the reach of posts immensely. Specifically, hashtag use …
Islam, locality and trust: Making Muslim spaces in the Netherlands
The development of an Islamic infrastructure by Muslims with a migrant background in European contexts has hardly been addressed as expressing a sign of putting down local roots, but rather as an activity that contradicts such a process. However, the various ways in which Muslim migrants have built up local Muslim spaces, both now and in the past, are ordinary modalities of locality production. This is a contentious, complex, and multi-faceted dy…
Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies: Studies in Honor of Dale F. Eickelman
Dale Eickelman's work is required reading for all who work in the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. His seminal textbook The Middle East: An Anthropological Approach, published in 1981
Page after Page I Thought, That’s the Way It Is”: Academic Knowledge and the Making of the ‘Islam Debate’ in the Netherlands
In this ‘Current Debate’ article, we discuss the entanglement of academic discourse and public debates on Islam and Muslims in the Netherlands. Academic output is a crucial but complex constituent of that debate. Many academics write policy reports, or take part in the debate through the media, and, whether they like it or not, their regular work is often co-opted by one of the discursive communities that take part in the debate. Research on Isla…
Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism, written by Sadek Hamid
Islam and Interest Struggle: Religious Collective Action Among Turkish Muslims in the Netherlands 1
The position of Islamic organizations among immigrants in Western-Europe has received increasing attention from social scientists as well as the public. The analysis of organizational development and interest struggle among Muslims can make use of existing general theoretical frameworks rather than develop ones specific to only Muslims or migrants. The main difference between the two variants of social movements is that the former takes a specifi…
The long arm of the state? Transnationalism, Islam, and nation-building: The case of Turkey and Morocco
From the moment the first Turkish and Moroccan workers migrated to Europe in the early 1960s, the Turkish and Moroccan states have been concerned with how to bind emigrated citizens to their country of origin. In this article, we focus on Islam as a multi-dimensional binding mechanism. Religion is a broad register that links emotion, affect, and senses of belonging and binds individuals to political and cultural projects of collective actors and …
Everyday Experiences, Moral Dilemmas and the Making of Muslim Life Worlds: Introductory Reflections
Transnational Turkish Islam
Transnational Turkish Islam provides an overview of Turkish organized Islam in seven European countries. It shows how Turkish Islamic organizations have developed from typical migrant associations in
The weeping sermon: Persuasion, binding and authority within the Gülen-movement
One of the remarkable aspects of the weekly meetings (sohbet) organised by the followers of Fethullah Gülen is the so-called weeping sermon. The visual depiction of the weeping sermon, where Fethullah Gülen bursts into tears, after which his followers intensively weep during a certain period, hardly reveals the implications of the ritual. Weeping sermons are not just emotional performances, or modes of enchantment. They are part of a larger media…
Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks
Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks is an ambitious project. In 170 pages Sofos and Tsagarousianou address the entire field of the public manifestation of Islam in Europe. The authors
Aesthetics of religious authority: Introduction
This special issue brings together anthropologists in the field of religion with the aim of exploring the aesthetic dimensions of authority in religious leadership.Taking aesthetics to refer to the range of sensory forms and experiences that shape the relation between religious practitioners and leaders, the contributing authors set out to explore the role of aesthetic forms and performative practices in the making of religious authority. What ki…
Domesticating Islam: Exploring academic knowledge production on Islam and Muslims in European societies
The attacks on the Twin Towers in New York in September 2001 and subsequent events not only ignited a 'war on terror', but also marked a crucial change in the policies on integration of migrants of Islamic background in Europe. Most countries departed from integration policies based on some sort of recognition of cultural diversity and emphasized national culture as the only legitimate format for citizenship. The result is a strengthening of a fr…
Cosmopolitan theology: Fethullah Gülen and the making of a 'Golden Generation
Global conditions, under which an increasing number of Muslims in the world currently live, do not just generate idioms of purity often adduced to global Islam, but also new and diverse forms of sociability and notions of global citizenship. This article addresses, as an example in case, Hizmet, one of the fastest growing contemporary Islamic movements. Hizmet and its founder Fethullah Gülen propagate a global Islamic doctrine with explicitly cos…
Beyond the Domestication of Islam in Europe: A Reflection on Past and Future Research on Islam in European Societies
The Journal of Muslims in Europe is devoted to publishing articles dealing with contemporary issues on Islam and Muslims in Europe from all disciplines and across the whole region, as well as historical studies of relevance to the present. The focus is on articles offering cross-country comparisons or with significant theoretical or methodological relevance to the field. Case studies with innovative approaches or on under-explored issues, and stu…
Beyond the domestication of Islam in Europe: A reflection on past and future research on Islam in European societies
Within two decades Islam in European societies has developed from an issue of minor academic interest into one of the fastest growing research fields. The main reason for this is no doubt the emergence of new regimes of governmentality in most countries in Europe that emanate from the complex relationship between integration, and political priorities of security and national identity, the ‘domestication of Islam’. The narrowing down of research f…
Radicalism and political reform in the Islamic and Western worlds
New Religious Leadership among Muslims in Europe
This article addresses the recent emergence of new forms of religious leadership among Muslims in Europe, by elaborating the nexus between mass-mediated forms of religion, the contemporary ‘unsettling of religious authority’ among Muslims in Europe, and the shifts in the position of Islam in European societies. The changes in forms of religious leadership, and the rise of new religious constituencies facilitated and conditioned by the spread of m…
Response to Heiko Henkel: Are Muslim Women in Europe Threatening the Secular Public Sphere
Constructing Islam: Places of Worship and the Politics of Space in The Netherlands
An activity that has always played a crucial role in emancipation processes among religious minorities is the acquisition and the construction of places of worship. This is not only because religio
Civil enculturation: Nation-state, school, and ethnic difference in four European countries
Domesticating Islam: Exploring academic knowledge production on Islam and Muslims in European societies
The attacks on the Twin Towers in New York in September 2001 and subsequent events not only ignited a 'war on terror', but also marked a crucial change in the policies on integration of migrants of Islamic background in Europe. Most countries departed from integration policies based on some sort of recognition of cultural diversity and emphasized national culture as the only legitimate format for citizenship. The result is a strengthening of a fr…
The long arm of the state? Transnationalism, Islam, and nation-building: The case of Turkey and Morocco
From the moment the first Turkish and Moroccan workers migrated to Europe in the early 1960s, the Turkish and Moroccan states have been concerned with how to bind emigrated citizens to their country of origin. In this article, we focus on Islam as a multi-dimensional binding mechanism. Religion is a broad register that links emotion, affect, and senses of belonging and binds individuals to political and cultural projects of collective actors and …
Aesthetics of religious authority: Introduction
This special issue brings together anthropologists in the field of religion with the aim of exploring the aesthetic dimensions of authority in religious leadership.Taking aesthetics to refer to the range of sensory forms and experiences that shape the relation between religious practitioners and leaders, the contributing authors set out to explore the role of aesthetic forms and performative practices in the making of religious authority. What ki…
Constructing Islam: Places of Worship and the Politics of Space in The Netherlands
An activity that has always played a crucial role in emancipation processes among religious minorities is the acquisition and the construction of places of worship. This is not only because religio
Post-Migration Ethnicity: De-Essentializing Cohesion, Commitments and Comparison
Cosmopolitan theology: Fethullah Gülen and the making of a 'Golden Generation
Global conditions, under which an increasing number of Muslims in the world currently live, do not just generate idioms of purity often adduced to global Islam, but also new and diverse forms of sociability and notions of global citizenship. This article addresses, as an example in case, Hizmet, one of the fastest growing contemporary Islamic movements. Hizmet and its founder Fethullah Gülen propagate a global Islamic doctrine with explicitly cos…
Beyond the domestication of Islam in Europe: A reflection on past and future research on Islam in European societies
Within two decades Islam in European societies has developed from an issue of minor academic interest into one of the fastest growing research fields. The main reason for this is no doubt the emergence of new regimes of governmentality in most countries in Europe that emanate from the complex relationship between integration, and political priorities of security and national identity, the ‘domestication of Islam’. The narrowing down of research f…
Response to Heiko Henkel: Are Muslim Women in Europe Threatening the Secular Public Sphere
The Establishment of Islamic Institutions in a De‐pillarizing Society
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media
Social media contributions surrounding the Charlie Hebdo attacks have been key in the creation and evolution of the image of Islam online. While the attacks were seen as an affront to French values and ways of life, online exchanges have traveled around the globe. Especially with social media platforms, such as Twitter and Instagram, offering immediate translations of captions has increased the reach of posts immensely. Specifically, hashtag use …
Page after Page I Thought, That’s the Way It Is”: Academic Knowledge and the Making of the ‘Islam Debate’ in the Netherlands
In this ‘Current Debate’ article, we discuss the entanglement of academic discourse and public debates on Islam and Muslims in the Netherlands. Academic output is a crucial but complex constituent of that debate. Many academics write policy reports, or take part in the debate through the media, and, whether they like it or not, their regular work is often co-opted by one of the discursive communities that take part in the debate. Research on Isla…
Authoritative Landscapes: The Making of Islamic Authority among Muslims in Europe
This special issue deals with Islamic authority-making among Muslims of migrant background in predominantly Western Europe. Religious authority is persuasive power in religious matters, regarding issues of knowledge and institutional competence, and of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics. The seven articles in this special issue address some of the manifold ways in which Islamic authority comes about. They show that authority shoul…
Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies: Studies in Honor of Dale F. Eickelman
Dale Eickelman's work is required reading for all who work in the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. His seminal textbook The Middle East: An Anthropological Approach, published in 1981
Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks
Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks is an ambitious project. In 170 pages Sofos and Tsagarousianou address the entire field of the public manifestation of Islam in Europe. The authors
Beyond the Domestication of Islam in Europe: A Reflection on Past and Future Research on Islam in European Societies
The Journal of Muslims in Europe is devoted to publishing articles dealing with contemporary issues on Islam and Muslims in Europe from all disciplines and across the whole region, as well as historical studies of relevance to the present. The focus is on articles offering cross-country comparisons or with significant theoretical or methodological relevance to the field. Case studies with innovative approaches or on under-explored issues, and stu…
The Establishment of Islamic Institutions in a De‐pillarizing Society
Post-Migration Ethnicity: De-Essentializing Cohesion, Commitments and Comparison
Civil enculturation: Nation-state, school, and ethnic difference in four European countries
Constructing Islam: Places of Worship and the Politics of Space in The Netherlands
An activity that has always played a crucial role in emancipation processes among religious minorities is the acquisition and the construction of places of worship. This is not only because religio
Response to Heiko Henkel: Are Muslim Women in Europe Threatening the Secular Public Sphere
New Religious Leadership among Muslims in Europe
This article addresses the recent emergence of new forms of religious leadership among Muslims in Europe, by elaborating the nexus between mass-mediated forms of religion, the contemporary ‘unsettling of religious authority’ among Muslims in Europe, and the shifts in the position of Islam in European societies. The changes in forms of religious leadership, and the rise of new religious constituencies facilitated and conditioned by the spread of m…
Beyond the domestication of Islam in Europe: A reflection on past and future research on Islam in European societies
Within two decades Islam in European societies has developed from an issue of minor academic interest into one of the fastest growing research fields. The main reason for this is no doubt the emergence of new regimes of governmentality in most countries in Europe that emanate from the complex relationship between integration, and political priorities of security and national identity, the ‘domestication of Islam’. The narrowing down of research f…
Radicalism and political reform in the Islamic and Western worlds
Beyond the Domestication of Islam in Europe: A Reflection on Past and Future Research on Islam in European Societies
The Journal of Muslims in Europe is devoted to publishing articles dealing with contemporary issues on Islam and Muslims in Europe from all disciplines and across the whole region, as well as historical studies of relevance to the present. The focus is on articles offering cross-country comparisons or with significant theoretical or methodological relevance to the field. Case studies with innovative approaches or on under-explored issues, and stu…
Domesticating Islam: Exploring academic knowledge production on Islam and Muslims in European societies
The attacks on the Twin Towers in New York in September 2001 and subsequent events not only ignited a 'war on terror', but also marked a crucial change in the policies on integration of migrants of Islamic background in Europe. Most countries departed from integration policies based on some sort of recognition of cultural diversity and emphasized national culture as the only legitimate format for citizenship. The result is a strengthening of a fr…
Cosmopolitan theology: Fethullah Gülen and the making of a 'Golden Generation
Global conditions, under which an increasing number of Muslims in the world currently live, do not just generate idioms of purity often adduced to global Islam, but also new and diverse forms of sociability and notions of global citizenship. This article addresses, as an example in case, Hizmet, one of the fastest growing contemporary Islamic movements. Hizmet and its founder Fethullah Gülen propagate a global Islamic doctrine with explicitly cos…
Everyday Experiences, Moral Dilemmas and the Making of Muslim Life Worlds: Introductory Reflections
Transnational Turkish Islam
Transnational Turkish Islam provides an overview of Turkish organized Islam in seven European countries. It shows how Turkish Islamic organizations have developed from typical migrant associations in
The weeping sermon: Persuasion, binding and authority within the Gülen-movement
One of the remarkable aspects of the weekly meetings (sohbet) organised by the followers of Fethullah Gülen is the so-called weeping sermon. The visual depiction of the weeping sermon, where Fethullah Gülen bursts into tears, after which his followers intensively weep during a certain period, hardly reveals the implications of the ritual. Weeping sermons are not just emotional performances, or modes of enchantment. They are part of a larger media…
Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks
Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks is an ambitious project. In 170 pages Sofos and Tsagarousianou address the entire field of the public manifestation of Islam in Europe. The authors
Aesthetics of religious authority: Introduction
This special issue brings together anthropologists in the field of religion with the aim of exploring the aesthetic dimensions of authority in religious leadership.Taking aesthetics to refer to the range of sensory forms and experiences that shape the relation between religious practitioners and leaders, the contributing authors set out to explore the role of aesthetic forms and performative practices in the making of religious authority. What ki…
The long arm of the state? Transnationalism, Islam, and nation-building: The case of Turkey and Morocco
From the moment the first Turkish and Moroccan workers migrated to Europe in the early 1960s, the Turkish and Moroccan states have been concerned with how to bind emigrated citizens to their country of origin. In this article, we focus on Islam as a multi-dimensional binding mechanism. Religion is a broad register that links emotion, affect, and senses of belonging and binds individuals to political and cultural projects of collective actors and …
Islam and Interest Struggle: Religious Collective Action Among Turkish Muslims in the Netherlands 1
The position of Islamic organizations among immigrants in Western-Europe has received increasing attention from social scientists as well as the public. The analysis of organizational development and interest struggle among Muslims can make use of existing general theoretical frameworks rather than develop ones specific to only Muslims or migrants. The main difference between the two variants of social movements is that the former takes a specifi…
Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism, written by Sadek Hamid
Page after Page I Thought, That’s the Way It Is”: Academic Knowledge and the Making of the ‘Islam Debate’ in the Netherlands
In this ‘Current Debate’ article, we discuss the entanglement of academic discourse and public debates on Islam and Muslims in the Netherlands. Academic output is a crucial but complex constituent of that debate. Many academics write policy reports, or take part in the debate through the media, and, whether they like it or not, their regular work is often co-opted by one of the discursive communities that take part in the debate. Research on Isla…
Islam, locality and trust: Making Muslim spaces in the Netherlands
The development of an Islamic infrastructure by Muslims with a migrant background in European contexts has hardly been addressed as expressing a sign of putting down local roots, but rather as an activity that contradicts such a process. However, the various ways in which Muslim migrants have built up local Muslim spaces, both now and in the past, are ordinary modalities of locality production. This is a contentious, complex, and multi-faceted dy…
Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies: Studies in Honor of Dale F. Eickelman
Dale Eickelman's work is required reading for all who work in the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. His seminal textbook The Middle East: An Anthropological Approach, published in 1981
Authoritative Landscapes: The Making of Islamic Authority among Muslims in Europe
This special issue deals with Islamic authority-making among Muslims of migrant background in predominantly Western Europe. Religious authority is persuasive power in religious matters, regarding issues of knowledge and institutional competence, and of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics. The seven articles in this special issue address some of the manifold ways in which Islamic authority comes about. They show that authority shoul…
When Birds of a Feather Instagram Together: Debating the Image of Islam in Echo Chambers and Through Trench Warfare on Social Media
Social media contributions surrounding the Charlie Hebdo attacks have been key in the creation and evolution of the image of Islam online. While the attacks were seen as an affront to French values and ways of life, online exchanges have traveled around the globe. Especially with social media platforms, such as Twitter and Instagram, offering immediate translations of captions has increased the reach of posts immensely. Specifically, hashtag use …
When bureaucracies meet: The governance of Islam in Western Europe
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