Muslims on the Map: A National Survey of Social Trends in Britain (International Library of Human Geography)

Many faith groups in the UK - most notably Muslims - have in recent years challenged the idea that religion should be predominantly a matter for the private domain. In response to this challenge, the 2001 National Census included the question of religious affiliation. Using the large-scale data of the 2001 National Census, 'Muslims on the Map' has created the first long awaited community profile which looks at Muslims as an entire faith community from a sociological and social policy perspective. In her analysis Serena Hussain reveals the social position of Muslims as a group compared to other faith communities in terms of educational qualifications, economic activity and housing conditions and as demonstrated by other poverty indicators. In doing so she provides the first significant, comprehensive portrait of Muslim communities in modern Britain. "The Great War was the first example of a total war in history, reflected in the cultures and literatures of Europe in the shape of propaganda. What began as civic patriotism developed into a weapon of war, programmed and organized by the state to devastating effect. In almost all countries, writers of different ideological hues were ready to undertake the job of representing the war, in accordance with the state's guidance. War propaganda in the Ottoman Empire, the most anachronistic belligerent of the war according to historians, was condemned to failure. In the underdeveloped and multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman-Turkish intelligentsia could not produce adequate propaganda to support the battlefronts and the home front. Why did propaganda efforts die after 1915? Can this be explained with the laziness or cosmopolitanism of the cultural agents? Or did the lack of propaganda derive from reasons that are more material?Erol Koroglu seeks to address these questions in a unique interdisciplinary assessment of Turkish literature and propaganda, interpreting literary texts written by the representative writers of the period. These interpretations follow a literary cultural history method and give an analysis of the complex interaction between literary texts and the historical context. Koroglu discusses the subjects of First World War propaganda, Turkish nationalism and national identity construction. He concludes that the unfavourable conditions in the Ottoman-Turkish cultural sphere, the literature of the years 1914-1918, even if superficially full of propaganda aims, was essentially the continuation of a project to build a national culture, inherited from the pre-war years and never completed. Turkish literature therefore did not reflect powerful propaganda, but was more a difficult attempt to create 'national identity'."--Bloomsbury publishing Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Contents......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 1 Becoming Visible......Page 26 2 Muslim Communities: Hidden and Seen......Page 48 3 Educational Attainment......Page 74 4 Muslim Household Composition......Page 118 5 Housing, Service Provision and Disadvantage......Page 156 6 Conclusion......Page 200 Notes......Page 210 References......Page 212 Index......Page 234 Serena Hussain. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [187]-207) And Index.