C L O S E R moves to….C L O S E R

Posted on September 2nd, 2014 by martijn.
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For a variety of reasons I will disable Closer on http://religionresearch.org/martijn. The new Closer can be found on: http://religionresearch.org/closer (makes sense right?). So please update your favorites (and don’t tell me this site doesn’t belong to that). The new site is already working:

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Interventions – Forces that Bind or Divide

Posted on February 12th, 2014 by martijn.
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Conflicts related to the public presence and representation of Islam have had an enormous impact on European societies over the past decades and have triggered debates about the binding or dividing function of religion in secular societies. Whereas most research considers Muslims as the object of integration policies, this proposal focuses on Muslims as active participants and investigates how their interventions produce ties that bind or divide both between Muslims and non-Muslims and amongst Muslims. Have such interventions contributed to development of a Muslim public sphere? To what extent and along which lines is this public sphere fractured? How does such a Muslim public intersect with other religious and non-religious publics? What transformations have taken place in the binding or dividing force of Islam in the Netherlands?

To answer these questions, this project does not start with categorizing Muslims (in terms of ethnicity, religious conviction and so on), but sets out with mapping the variety of positions Muslims, including Muslim youth and women, have taken up, both in terms of the substance of their interventions and with reference to their styles of presentation and the impact of particular forms of mediation. Employing a historical, comparative and transnational perspective, the broader question it addresses is whether and how such Muslim interventions and their societal effects are specific to the Dutch context or an expression of a far wider European or even global trends.

Focus

In order to analyse interventions with respect to particular conflicts and debates, extended case-study methods are used. Public events and conflicts about the public presence and representation of Islam are approached here as ‘diagnostic’ occurrences that offer insight into broader social struggles and dynamics of change (Moore 1987). The cases selected cover the main fields of Muslim activism in the Netherlands: Muslim participation, representing Islam, and living Islam.

Muslim participation: mosques and imams. In the Netherlands policy makers have for the last decades attempted to engender a ‘liberal, Dutch Islam’, steering Muslims away from ‘orthodoxy’ (Rath e.a. 1999, 61; cf. Maussen 2009). After 9/11, and in particular after the murder of Theo van Gogh, there has been a great concern about the involvement of mosques and imams in the development of a parallel society. Imam training has also been one of the pillars of the Dutch counter-radicalization policies, aiming to provide an alternative for ‘radicalizing Muslim youth’.

Also in Muslim circles, mosques as well as imam training are a topic of great interest and contestation, especially with respect to the involvement of the younger generation and women.

Representing Islam: texts and images. Freedom of speech versus religious sensitivities have emerged as a major field of contestation since the Rushdie Affair. Since then we have witnessed the emergence of new organizations, new spokespersons, a more compelling integration policy and stronger secularist underpinnings of the debates. Comparing the Rushdie Affair with the Muhammad Cartoons, and the movies Submission and Fitna allows us to explore how Muslimactivists and organization have altered their strategies and tactics. It also brings to the fore the  importance of particular forms of mediation, such as the Internet and its increased interactivity, and the ways in which textual and visual means are employed

Living Islam: love, food and dress. ‘Islamic lifestyles’ have also engendered heated debates in Europe. Three topics, ritual slaughter, dress (especially veiling), and marriages are particularly interesting, because of the very different constellations of binding and dividing forces they entail. A prohibition of ritual slaughter does not only affect Muslims but also Jews, positioning both in opposition to defenders of animal rights. Face-veiling (as one instantiation of Islamic dress) and Islamic marriages are also contested amongst Muslims themselves, and are strong cases where the trope of Muslim women’s gender subordination is employed.

Because a pilot has already indicated that men have a far stronger presence in this field than women, while the position of Muslim women is one of the main topics of debate (Bracke 2011; Hammer 2012; Scott 2009), the PhD student will focus specifically on the gendered ways of participation in the debates as well as the gendered construction of particular topics in the debates, whereas the post-doc will focus on generational issues and the particular  position of Muslim youth.

Societal Relevance

Tensions about the public presence and the representation of Islam are central to debates about national identity, and the future of democratic participation in Northern European multicultural societies. Following the pillarization and later privatization of religion in Dutch society, we now witness religious groups actively engaging in culture and politics, showing a new assertive expressivity. The conflicts about the representation of religion and about religious activism reveal important developments in Dutch society, with regard to issues that are considered to be of fundamental value to the fabric of society such as citizenship, liberal freedoms, (the limits of) public debate and the position of religion. As religion has become a topical, yet still little understood issue in social conflict, policy makers are in need of more profound and differentiated analyses of the binding and dividing forces of religion, in particular with reference to the internal and transnational dynamics of networks of Muslim activists. This research does not only analyse the public presence of Muslim activists but also focuses on their internal differentiations and contestations. This will engender a better understanding of the binding and dividing forces of religious activism, and the transformations that have taken place in the course of the last two decades.

In order to enhance the public relevance of the project and its research results we work closely together with Imagine IC; pioneering the heritage of our present lives together.

Research Team

Prof.dr. Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam, AISSR

Dr. Sarah Bracke, Harvard University

Dr. Martijn de Koning, University of Amsterdam, AISSR

Drs. Fouzia Outmany, University of Amsterdam, AISSR.

The project is funded by NWO.

ACT? – Inspiration, Intervention, Information

The project has a blog that provides information about the project, monitors online activity and relevant recent debates. WAWGTDAI? is short for What Are We Going To Do About It? A question some people ask when they see, experience, hear things that are at odds with how they think a situation should be. So what to do then? And if to act, how to act? What would be most effective? What would be appropriate according to one’s own moral reasonings and how do people anticipate reactions from others? Have a look at ACT!

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ISIM Review via Closer

Posted on December 18th, 2009 by martijn.
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Despite an evaluation by an international peer-review committee that rated The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) as an excellently performing, internationally leading institute in its field, the institute has been closed as per 1 January 2009, due to the lack of adequate funding. ISIM was set up ten years ago by the universities of Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Nijmegen, and the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The objective of the institute has been to carry out innovative research into the social, political, cultural and intellectual trends and movements in present-day Muslim communities and societies worldwide.
ISIM Review

The ISIM Review carries research articles by scholars throughout the world, enabling its readers to follow trends in research and offering background information on current developments and events relevant to Islam and Muslim societies. In 2005 the name of the ISIM Newsletter has been changed to ISIM Review to more accurately reflect the publication’s objective of providing a review of debates and research on contemporary Muslim societies and communities in an accessible manner to a broad readership.
On this page you find an overview of all the ISIM Reviews (incl. Newsletter) over the years with links to the full issue or separate articles (from no. 13 onwards). When you refer to an article in the Review the usual guidelines apply but please include both the download link and the link of this page and date of access. The reason for this is that I cannot guarantee the download links will remain the same, the URL of this page however will not change.

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A Selection of 10 years ISIM Newsletter/Review in Dutch
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ISIM Newsletter 1 – 12


ISIM Newsletter 13, December 2003
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ISIM Newsletter 14, June 2004
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Table of Contents

-ISIM

-Martyrdom

-Politics

-Multiculturalism and Integration

-Identity & Culture

-Political Participation & Activism

-Arts, Media & Society

-Islam, Society & the State

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ISIM Review 15, Spring 2005
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– ISIM

– Debates on Islam in Europe

– Politics

– Minorities & Migration

– Education

– Arts & Media

– Consumption

– Islam, Society & the State

– Religious Authority

– Institutions

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ISIM Review 16, Autumn 2005
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– ISIM

– Youth Cultures

– Sexual Ethics

– Minorities & Migration

– At the Grassroots

– Political Cultures

– Research Approaches

– Travel Writing

– Arts & Architecture

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ISIM Review 17, Spring 2006

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-ISIM

-Popular Piety

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-Law & Ethics

-Islam, Society & the State

-Reformist Movements

-Media & Representation

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ISIM Review 18, Autumn 2006

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-Shades of Islamism

-Society & the State

-Religious Labelling

-Media & Representation

-Arts

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ISIM Review 19, Spring 2007

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-ISIM

-Transnational Ties

-Connecting to the Modern

-Frictions in Europe

-Rituals in Motion

-Thoughts & Perceptions

-Society & the State

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ISIM Review 20, Autumn 2007

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– Society & the State

– Uncommon Media

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ISIM Review 21, Spring 2008

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– ISIM

– SALAFISM

– MIGRANTS & MINORITIES

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– SPACE & ARCHITECTURE

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ISIM Review 22, Autumn 2008

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– COSMOPOLITANISM

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– ORGANIZATIONS & ACTIVISM

– RELIGIOUS PRACTICE & PIETY

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Ze geloven het wel – Jongeren en religie in Nederland

Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by martijn.
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Ze geloven het wel – Jongeren en religie in Nederland

Uitvoerders:

Monique van Dijk

Martijn de Koning

Joris Kregting

Johan Roeland

Wat weten we over gelovige jongeren in Nederland? Wat we eigenlijk niet? Over wie weten we wat en over wie niet? Welke trends kunnen we vaststellen bijvoorbeeld met betrekking tot secularisering en jongeren? Wat wordt de onderzoeksagenda voor de 21e eeuw?

In een heuse state-of-the-art studie proberen we een overzicht te geven van de belangrijkste trends in de religiositeit van jongeren in Nederland; zowel met betrekking tot de mate van religiositeit als de aard van hun religiositeit. Daarvoor zullen zowel kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve gegevens betrokken worden en christelijke jongeren en moslimjongeren met elkaar vergeleken worden. Deze insteek maakt dit tot een uniek project. De resultaten worden in 2009 verwacht. In januari 2008 hebben we een zeer goed bezocht seminar gehouden aan de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam waarin zowel onderzoekers als mensen uit het religieuze veld en de journalistiek zich bogen over de eerste resultaten en de bijdragen van andere onderzoekers. Zie Johan’s weblog voor een overzicht van de kranten: Selfation.
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ISIM/RU Understanding Islam (salafism)

Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by martijn.
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Salafism: Production, Distribution, Consumption and Transformation of a Transnational Ideology in the Middle East and Europe

Supervisors:

  1. prof. dr. Harald Motzki (Radboud University Nijmegen)
  2. prof. dr. Martin van Bruinessen (chair at Utrecht University and former ISIM chair)

The project initially was a joint venture of ISIM and Radboud University. Since ISIM is closed as per 1 January 2009, the whole project now resides in Nijmegen (with both prof. Motzki and prof. Van Bruinessen still as supervisors).

At ISIM and currently at Radboud University Nijmegen I am a postdoctoral fellow within the ISIM/Radboud University project ‘Salafism: Production, Distribution, Consumption and Transformation of a Transnational Ideology in the Middle East and Europe’, funded by the NWO. In his project I focus on the demand side of religious knowledge by looking at how young Muslims actively engage with the writings of major religious leaders of the different Salafi currents in the Middle East and their representatives in the Netherlands.

The aim of this research program is to understand how religious knowledge of the Salafi movements is produced, distributed, consumed and transformed on a transnational level and a local level. The subproject on Muslim salafi youth in the Netherlands combines insights from social movement theory with identity politics of Muslim youth and will focus on the demand side of religious knowledge by looking at how young Muslims actively engage with the writings of major religious leaders of the three different Salafi currents in the Middle East and their representatives in the Netherlands.

Young Muslims are not seen as a passive audience in this process, but as agents who actively create their own notion of what the correct Islamic beliefs and practices are, which in turn are based on their religious experiences and their life-world. This subproject concentrates on questions as how do Dutch Muslim youth acquire their knowledge of Islam? How do they practice it? Whom do they regard as religious authorities? Why are some of them attracted to Salafism and why do they choose one of its currents? How is the Salafimovement in the Netherlands influenced by the practices of Muslim youth?

Because the label ‘salafism’ is ubiquitous at the moment I have chosen to reframe the research into the different modalities of understanding Islam among Muslims who visit and/or participate in the networks of mosques that follow the salafi manhaj.
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Ethnobarometer – Integration and security post 9/11

Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by martijn.
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Ethnobarometer: Europe’s Muslim Communities – Security and Integration post-11 September

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Questions about the impact of 9/11 on Muslim communities in the European Union in terms of social interaction and conceptualization of Muslim identity led to the comparative project “Europe’s Muslim communities: Security and Integration post 9/11” from 2003 to 2007. The project was initated by Ethnobarometer, the International Research Network on Interethnic Politics and Migration, and directed by Alessandro Silj. It involved national research teams in six EU countries (Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands). ISIM was the Dutch partner of the project. More information

Dutch research

ISIM is the Netherlands-based partner in the latest Ethnobarometer project called Europe’s Muslim Communities – Security and Integration post-11 September. The project is operational in six countries: Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands. This research project focuses on inter-ethnic relations, perceptions, and discourse. The other participants are leading research groups in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Germany. A central element in the research methods of this project consists of focus groups that in their composition – age, ethnicity, political, and religious commitment – reflected the composition of local communities where conflict or inter-ethnic tension have occurred.

The field research in the Netherlands was carried out by Martijn de Koning (ISIM) and five research assistants.

CONFERENCE PAPER: ‘Dreaming in Dutch’ Conflicts and Tolerance in Dutch Society

Participants

Project Director:
Alessandro Silj (Ethnobarometer, Consiglio Italiano per le Scienze Sociali)

Coordinators and research assistants:
For Belgium: Felice Dassetto (Unité d’anthropologie et sociologie, Université catholique de Louvain), Brigitte Maréchal (Unité d’anthropologie et sociologie, Université catholique de Louvain), Jordane Carpentier de Changy;

For Italy: Stefano Allievi (Department of Sociology, University of Padova);

For France: Valérie Amiraux (CNRS/ CURAPP, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European University), Yasmina Dahim (ISIM), Samir Amghar (EHESS), Marie Lejeune (Paris VII);

For Great-Britain: Myriam Cherti (Centre for Migration Research, Sussex University), Gill Cressey (School of Education, University of Birmingham), Muhammad Khan (School of Education, University of Birmingham), Sara Silvestri (University of Cambridge, Centre of International Studies);

For Germany: Gerdien Jonker (Vergleichende Kultur und Sozialanthropologie, Europa-Universitat Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany, Georg-Eckert-Institute for International Textbook Research – Braunschweig), Werner Schiffauer (Vergleichende Kultur und Sozialanthropologie, Europa-Universitat Viadrina, Frankfurt-Germany), Nina, Mona, Khaled,

For the Netherlands: Martijn de Koning (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden, The Netherlands), Martin van Bruinessen (Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Utrecht University and ISIM), Shanti Tuinstra, Nora Asrami, Birgül Özmen (Utrecht University), Talita Groenendijk (University of Amsterdam), Bea Hekhuis (Utrecht University).

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PhD 'True Islam'

Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by martijn.
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Zoeken naar een ‘zuivere’ islam. Geloofs-beleving en identiteitsvorming van jonge Marokkaans-Nederlandse moslims

Searching for a ‘pure’ Islam. Religious beliefs and identity construction of Moroccan-Dutch Muslim youth

In this research the religious identity of young adolescents will be explored in the practices of these young people and in the beliefs they use in order to give meaning to these practices. It’s clear that in the case of young people religious identity is hard to separate from other identities such as adolescent, Moroccan or male/female. Therefore not only religious practices are the topic of this research but practices of which young people think they are important in their life as a Muslim. When the research would be limited to religious practices, the interplay of the different identities and it’s influence on the religious identity could not be looked into. It would also mean that the question of their religious identity would be partially answered, while the aim is to look into the way these young people are religious according to themselves.

The research was conducted in a very turbulent period in recent history: between 1999 and 2005 in which major events such as the attacks of 9/11, the rise and murder of populist leader Fortuyn and the murder of Theo van Gogh infuenced the identity construction and religiosity of Moroccan-Dutch Muslim youth. Even before 9/11 there was already an increase in interest for religion among young Moroccan-Dutch. But once the debate on Islam flared up, their interest increased enormously. They were continually asked about their Muslim identity; not just by the media, but also by school mates and teachers and by people at their sports club. They started looking into Islam so that they could answer these questions.

They wanted a pure Islam, without compromise. Not an Islam that had been watered down because they happened to live in the Netherlands. Nor did they want an Islam peppered with Moroccan traditions. It is a form of Islam with clear rules, which makes a clear distinction between good and evil. An Islam which is stricter and more orthodox than that of the older generation, but nevertheless seemed to provide better answers to their complicated lives in modern Dutch society and still leaves enough room for negotiations and compromise.


Status: completed

More information:

In Dutch:

  1. Old website
  2. Weblog
  3. Publisher Bert Bakker

In Arabic

  1. Hespress

In English:

  1. Old website
  2. Weblog
  3. ISIM Review ‘Ambivalent Purity‘ (PDF)

The PhD thesis is in Dutch and published by Bert Bakker. Non-Dutch readers can ask for a copy of the English summary by sending an email.
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PhD ‘True Islam’

Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by martijn.
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Zoeken naar een ‘zuivere’ islam. Geloofs-beleving en identiteitsvorming van jonge Marokkaans-Nederlandse moslims

Searching for a ‘pure’ Islam. Religious beliefs and identity construction of Moroccan-Dutch Muslim youth

In this research the religious identity of young adolescents will be explored in the practices of these young people and in the beliefs they use in order to give meaning to these practices. It’s clear that in the case of young people religious identity is hard to separate from other identities such as adolescent, Moroccan or male/female. Therefore not only religious practices are the topic of this research but practices of which young people think they are important in their life as a Muslim. When the research would be limited to religious practices, the interplay of the different identities and it’s influence on the religious identity could not be looked into. It would also mean that the question of their religious identity would be partially answered, while the aim is to look into the way these young people are religious according to themselves.

The research was conducted in a very turbulent period in recent history: between 1999 and 2005 in which major events such as the attacks of 9/11, the rise and murder of populist leader Fortuyn and the murder of Theo van Gogh infuenced the identity construction and religiosity of Moroccan-Dutch Muslim youth. Even before 9/11 there was already an increase in interest for religion among young Moroccan-Dutch. But once the debate on Islam flared up, their interest increased enormously. They were continually asked about their Muslim identity; not just by the media, but also by school mates and teachers and by people at their sports club. They started looking into Islam so that they could answer these questions.

They wanted a pure Islam, without compromise. Not an Islam that had been watered down because they happened to live in the Netherlands. Nor did they want an Islam peppered with Moroccan traditions. It is a form of Islam with clear rules, which makes a clear distinction between good and evil. An Islam which is stricter and more orthodox than that of the older generation, but nevertheless seemed to provide better answers to their complicated lives in modern Dutch society and still leaves enough room for negotiations and compromise.


Status: completed

More information:

In Dutch:

  1. Old website
  2. Weblog
  3. Publisher Bert Bakker

In Arabic

  1. Hespress

In English:

  1. Old website
  2. Weblog
  3. ISIM Review ‘Ambivalent Purity‘ (PDF)

The PhD thesis is in Dutch and published by Bert Bakker. Non-Dutch readers can ask for a copy of the English summary by sending an email.
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Research

Posted on March 6th, 2008 by martijn.
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My Ph.D research ‘Searching for a ‘pure’ Islam. Religious beliefs and identity construction among Moroccan-Dutch Muslim youth.

In Dutch: HERE

In English: HERE

The Ethnobarometer project in the Netherlands

ISIM / Radboud University project
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Publications

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My Publications (English and Dutch)
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Books
2012
Jansma, Lammert Gosse, Durk Hak, en Martijn de Koning, red. 2012. Ervaren en ervaren worden. Opstellen over langdurig sociaalwetenschappelijk veldonderzoek. Delft: Eburon.
2008

Zoeken naar een ‘zuivere’ islam. Geloofsbeleving en identiteitsvorming onder jonge Marokkaans-Nederlandse moslims, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker

Searching for a ‘pure’ Islam. Religious Beliefs and Identity Construction among Moroccan-Dutch Youth, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker (In Press). The Ph.D thesis will be in Dutch. Within several weeks I will place a link to an English summary here. Read my article in the ISIM Review HERE.

2005

Dick Douwes, Martijn de Koning & Welmoet Boender (Eds.), Nederlandse moslims. Van migrant tot burger. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press Salomé. (popular)

Articles
2012
“‘Salafisme is overal’: Een radicale utopie en de constructie van angst”. Religie & Samenleving 7(1):54–70.

“Islamisering of secularisering? De kwestie van islam in Europa”. Tijdschrift voor Theologie 52(3):263–72.

“Styles of Salafi Activism: Escaping the Divide”. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 8(3):400–401.

2011

With Edien Bartels, Oka Storms. (2011). Schadelijke traditionele praktijken en cultureel burgerschap – Integratie, seksualiteit en gender. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 14(1), 35-51.

“Moge Hij onze ogen openen” De radicale utopie van het “salafisme”. Tijdschrift voor Religie, Recht en Beleid, 2(2).
Dialoog en Geloof in Actie. Theologisch Debat, 8(2), 19-26.

De transnationale salafiyyahbeweging. Internationale Spectator, 65(10), 516-521.

2010
With Roeland, Johan, Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman, and Ineke Noomen. 2010. “Zoeken naar zuiverheid. Religieuze purificatie onder jonge new-agers, evangelicalen en moslims.” Sociologie 11-30.

‘The Quest for Religious Purity in New Age, Evangelicalism and Islam: Religious Renditions of Dutch Youth and the Luckmann Legacy‘, in: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion – 2009: Youth and Religion (with Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman, Ineke Noomen and Johan Roeland

2009

Islam is Islam. Punt uit? Marokkaans-Nederlandse moslimjongeren in Gouda en de culturele constructie van een ‘zuivere’ islam. Migrantenstudies 25, no. 1: 59-72.

Moslimjongeren. De salafi-beweging en de vorming van een morele gemeenschap. Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, no. 4: 375-385.

‘Hoe lang wil je dansen?’ Lichamelijkheid en mannelijkheid. ZemZem. Jrg. 5 No. 3:

ZemZem. Themanummer ‘Het lichaam’. Vol. 2. gastredacteur.

Met Johan Roeland. Geef ons heden ons internet. Tussenruimte. Tijdschrift voor interculturele theologie. Jrg. 2 no. 2: 17-21

2007

‘Knip- en plakislam’, In de Marge. Tijdschrift voor levensbeschouwing en wetenschap, 16(3): 18-24.

‘Wiens lichaam is het eigenlijk? De ‘zuivere’ islam en identiteit van Marokkaanse meisjes en jongens’, Al Nisa. Islamitisch maandblad voor vrouwen, 27(7): 6-17.

2005

”Dit is geen poep wat ik praat’ De Hirsi Ali Diss nader belicht’, ZemZem, 1(1): 36-41.

De Koning, M. and Bartels, E. ‘Voor Allah en mijzelf – Jonge Marokkanen op zoek naar de ‘echte’ islam’, S & D. Maandblad van de Wiardi Beckman Stichting, wetenschappelijk bureau van de Partij van de Arbeid, 62(1/2): 19-27.2002

2003

Bartels, E. and Koning, M. d.’Islam en civil society in Marokko’, In de Marge, (4): 30-38.

2002

De Koning, M. ‘Institutionele grenzen. De hulpverlening van RCJ/Het Woonhuis en moskee Nour’, Sociale Interventie, 11(1): 5-13.

Chapters in edited volumes
2012
“‘Moge Allah en Zijn Engelen over jullie en jullie naasten waken’. Veldwerk als emotionele ervaring”. in Ervaren en ervaren worden. Opstellen over langdurig sociaalwetenschappelijk veldonderzoek, bewerkt door Lammert Gosse Jansma, Durk Hak, en Martijn de Koning. Delft: Eburon.

“The ‘Other’ Political Islam. Understanding Salafi Politics”. Pp. 153–76 in Whatever Happened to the Islamists?: Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims, and the Lure of Consumerist Islam, edited by Amel Boubekeur en Olivier Roy. New York / London: Columbia University Press / Hurst Publishers.

“‘Kämpfen im Namen Allahs’: Transnationale soziale Felder und die Radikalisierung des Hofstad-Netzwerks in den Niederlanden”. Pp. 215–44 in Radikale Milieus: Das soziale Umfeld terroristischer Gruppen, edited by Peter Waldmann en Stefan Malthaner. Frankfurt, New York: Campus.

“La politíca salafí en los Países Bajos”. Pp. 207–13 in Los Movimientos islámicos transnacionales, edited by F. Peter and R Ortega. Madrid: Casa Arabe.

2011

“Melting the heart” Muslim youth in the Netherlands and the Qur??n. In Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Kees Versteegh and Joas Wagemakers (Eds.) The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam. Essays in Honour of Harald Motzki. Leiden: Brill Publishers.

With Edien Bartels Submission and a Ritual Murder; The transnational aspects of a local conflict and protest. In T. Salman & M. De Theije (Red.), Local Battles – Global Stakes. The Globalization of Local Conflicts and the Localization of Global Interests (pp. 21-41). Amsterdam: VU University Press.

With Roel Meijer. Going All the Way: Politicization and Radicalization of the Hofstad Network in the Netherlands. In A. E. Azzi, X. Chryssochoou, B. Klandermans, & B. Simon (Red.), Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (pp. 220-239). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Tussen de profeet en het paradijs. De morele ambities van de salafiyyah in Nederland. In Musschenga & B. Siertsema (Red.), Het Kwaad. Reflecties op de zwarte zijde van ons bestaan (pp. 180-191). Vught: Skandalon.

Netherlands. In Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, red. Jorgen Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Brigitte Maréchal, en Christian Moe, 1:243-257. Leiden: Brill.

2010

With Bartels, Edien, Kim Knibbe, and Oscar Salemink. 2010. “Cultural Identity as a Key Dimension of Human Security in Western Europe: The Dutch Case.” Pp. 116-133 in A World of Insecurity. Anthropological Perspectives On Human Security, Eds. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ellen Bal, and Oscar Salemink. London: Pluto Press.

“Understanding Dutch Islam: Exploring the Relationship of Muslims with the State and the Public Sphere in the Netherlands.” Pp. 181-197 in Muslim Diaspora in the West Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging, Eds. Haideh Moghissi en Halleh Ghorashi. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing.

With Van Dijk-Groeneboer, Monique, and Joris Kregting, en Johan Roeland. 2010. “Ze Geloven Het Wel.” Pp. 25-88 in Handboek Jongeren en Religie. Katholieke, protestantse en islamitische jongeren in Nederland, Ed. Van Dijk-Groeneboer. Amsterdam: Parthenon.

De Koning, Martijn. 2010. “Zoeken naar Zuiverheid en Authenticeit..” Pp. 159-175 in Handboek Jongeren en Religie. Katholieke, protestantse en islamitische jongeren in Nederland,Ed. Monique Van Dijk-Groeneboer. Amsterdam: Parthenon.

2009

Changing Worldviews and Friendship. An Exploration of the Life Stories of Two Female Salafists in the Netherlands. In Global Salafism. Islam’s New Religious Movement, Ed. Roel Meijer, 372-392. London: Hurst.

Netherlands. In Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Ed. Jorgen Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Brigitte Maréchal, en Christian Moe, 1:243-257. Leiden: Brill.

2008
”You Follow the Path Of the Shaitan: we try to follow the righteous path.’ Negotiating Evil in the Identity Construction of Young Moroccan-Dutch Muslims’, in L. Minnema and N. Van Doorn-Harder (eds.), Coping with Evil in Religion and Culture: Case Studies, pp. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

2006

‘For Allah and myself. Religion and Moroccan Youth in The Netherlands. ‘ in P. H. F. Bos and W. Fritschy (eds.), Morocco and The Netherlands. Society, Economy, Culture. , pp. 146-156. Amsterdam: VU Publishers.

Reports

2004

With Edien Bartels Over het huwelijk gesproken: partnerkeuze en gedwongen huwelijken bij Marokkaanse, Turkse en Hindoestaanse Nederlanders. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

1997

‘Hulpverlening aan Marokkaanse jongens met onderwijsproblemen. De hulpverleningsmethodiek van Stichting Woonhuis en moskee Nour te Gouda’, Amsterdam: Wetenschapswinkel Vrije Universiteit.

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My name is Martijn de Koning, born in 1972 a dull but nice small town called Eerde in the south of the Netherlands.In 1997 I graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as an anthropologist. After several small jobs I began in 1999 my work at the project Schoolcareersupport of the Nour mosque in Gouda and the social work organization Woonhuis. In that year I began my Ph.D project The religious identity of young Moroccan-Dutch muslim boys and girls in Gouda. In 2008 I defended my Ph.D ‘Looking for a ‘pure’ Islam. Identity formation and religious experience among Moroccan-Dutch youth’. In 2002 I joined the researchgroup Between secularization and religionization of prof. Droogers at the Vrije Universiteit and until 1 January 2009 I was working in Leiden at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM). From 2007 onwards I’m working at Radboud University Nijmegen and since 2013 also at University of Amsterdam see HERE). In 2014 I published, together with my colleagues Joas Wagemakers en Carmen Becker Salafisme. Salafisme: Utopische idealen in een weerbarstige praktijk. (Salafism. Utopian Ideals and Unruly Practices).
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I have published on identity construction of Moroccan-Dutch youth, Salafi Muslims in the Netherlands, the radicalization
of Muslim youth, and the Dutch Islam debate. Currently I’m working the Department of Islam and Arab Studies at the Faculty of Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen and also teaching at the Anthropology Department of the University of Amsterdam.

I am a member of the board of the Dutch Association for the Study of Middle East and Islam (MOI). One of the projects of this association is the magazine ZemZem.

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