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Ce petit livre aborde les grandes problematiques portant sur les musulmans canadiens. Qui sont les musulmans canadiens ? Que faut-il pour qu'un pays soit une terre d'accueil saine et accueillante ? Ces questions sont abordees dans la premiere section. Qu'est-ce que l'identite musulmane canadienne ? Cette section offre des pistes de reponses aux difficiles questions entourant l'interaction entre les identites religieuse et nationale. Sont-elles contradictoires ou complementaires ? Comment se compare le modele canadien d'integration ? Deux modeles tres differents sont presentes a titre de comparaisons : le modele d'assimilation a la francaise, et l'approche bosnienne d'exclusion. Qu'est-ce que la \" citoyennete \" d'un point de vue islamique ? La derniere section explore les principes formateurs de l'Islam - le Coran et la sunna (tradition prophetique) a l'ere de la mondialisation. L'histoire de l'Islam, y compris son histoire contemporaine jettent un eclairage interessant sur la question. Fonde sur la comprehension accrue et le respect, ce petit livre contribue de maniere positive au debat actuel sur la place des musulmans canadiens et de l'Islam au Canada. Voici le titre inaugural de la Collection 101, une serie de breves introductions, en 101 pages, aux grands debats de societe.Ce livre est publie en anglais.-Islam in the West: Beyond Integration offers an overview and a profile of Muslims living in the West, their identity, integration and citizenship. The book tries to answer some hard questions surrounding the interplay between religious and national identities, and how these two types of identities negotiate their place in the hearts of Western Muslims. Case studies cover constructive integration in Canada, assimilation in France and the exclusionist approach in Bosnia. 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Readers will find this to be an in-depth analysis andnuanced treatment of an important aspect of Canadian Jewish history. This book is published in English, translated from the original \"A chacun ses juifs\".-Quelle place la question juive a-t-elle occupee dans les pages du quotidien quebecois Le Devoir dans la premiere moitie du XXe siecle? L'historien Pierre Anctil propose une analyse detaillee des editoriaux publies par ce journal respecte entre 1910 et 1947.La position du Devoir relativement a la communaute juive de Montreal et au judaisme en general est l'une des questions historiographiques les plus debattues en histoire juive canadienne.En effet, les editoriaux parus dans Le Devoir sont d'une grande signification dans la mesure ou ils sont representatifs de la reaction de l'elite francophone nationaliste a la presence juive a Montreal, a l'antisemitisme de l'Etat nazi allemand, et a la Shoah.Plusieurs ouvrages de langue anglaise decrivent Le Devoir comme un exemple typique de la position ideologique du Canada francais des annees 1930 et sa mefiance, voire son hostilite, envers les Juifs. Jusqu'a maintenant, toutefois, aucune etude serieuse n'avait ete realisee pour appuyer ou pour refuter ce postulat.Pierre Anctil propose une nouvelle lecture des editoriaux du Devoir parus entre 1910 et 1947 - soit depuis la fondation du journal par Henri Bourassa jusqu'a la mort de son deuxieme editeur, Georges Pelletier. Environ 200 des editoriaux publies pendant cette periode - soit 2 % du nombre total - portaient sur les Juifs et le judaisme. 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In this ethnographic study of four full-time Islamic schools, Jasmin Zine explores the social, pedagogical, and ideological functions of these alternative, and religiously-based educational institutions. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork and interviews with forty-nine participants, Canadian Islamic Schools provides significant insight into the role and function that Islamic schools have in Diasporic, Canadian, educational, and gender-related contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscussing issues of cultural preservation, multiculturalism, secularization, and assimiliation, Zine considers pertinent topics such as the Eurocentricism of Canada's public schools and the social reproduction of Islamic identity. 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