[Rezension von: Hummel, Daniel, Prejudice and policymaking]
Anti-Sharia laws were an alternate reality legislative movement in American politics of the last dozen years, propelled by opposition to the nation’s first black president and used as a way to whip up right-wing fervor that surely contributed to the 2010 Republican wave. Daniel Hummel’s study offers...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2023, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 157-159 |
| Review of: | Prejudice and policymaking (Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021) (Djupe, Paul A.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Islamophobia (motif)
/ Religious freedom
/ USA
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| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Anti-Sharia laws were an alternate reality legislative movement in American politics of the last dozen years, propelled by opposition to the nation’s first black president and used as a way to whip up right-wing fervor that surely contributed to the 2010 Republican wave. Daniel Hummel’s study offers a bit of historical context that preceded anti-Sharia legislation and then proceeds to build a model that provides a test for which states considered such laws and which adopted them.This short volume is a modest expansion of the author’s 2022 article "Legislating Islamophobia: The factors for the existence of anti-sharia laws in the United States" that appeared in Public Policy and Administration 37(3): 317-341. I can see slight differences between the two pieces, but they reach the same conclusion, though in a tighter package in the article. As in the article, the book builds explanations but in a series of brief chapters until we reach a few regression models of anti-Sharia bill introduction and passage in chapter 8—the penultimate chapter before the conclusion. The long and the short of it is that bill introduction and passage is more likely to happen in conservative, Republican states with higher concentrations of Christians; the size of the Muslim population is, predictably, immaterial. That is, these bills were a culture-wars ploy. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csac090 |