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Noemi Trucco

Born in 1990, Noemi Trucco is a sociologist and researcher at the Swiss Center for Islam and Society (CSIS) at the University of Fribourg. She holds a PhD in sociology obtained in 2023, with a thesis focusing on the “subjectivation” of imams. Her research areas include the sociology of knowledge, discourse analysis, and the study of subjectivation, with a particular interest in Muslims and Islam in Europe, processes of othering and exclusion, social conflicts, and social inequalities. In addition to her research activities at CSIS since 2018, Noemi Trucco teaches at the Department of Social Work, Social Policy, and Global Development at the University of Fribourg. She co-organized the monthly research workshop on sociological discourse analysis (WDA) in 2022-2023 and will co-organize the meetings of the WDA network in the German-speaking area starting from 2024. Her other research interests include political and social processes in Turkey as well as statelessness.

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From Transnational Islamic Movements to Individual Religiosity: the Crisis of Religious Authority in Western European Muslim Communities

  • Baptiste Brodard

Islam has evolved in form over recent decades in Western European countries, where its lack of institutionalization and official representation allow different ideological trends, movements, and re...

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Religious Diversity, Interreligious Perspectives, and Islamic Religious Education in Switzerland: Current Situation and Room for Maneuver

  • Hansjörg Schmid

Twenty years ago, the first pilot projects of Islamic religious education (IRE) in public schools in Switzerland caused a stir in some parts of the country. From a pedagogical perspective, the rati...

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Muslim Social Action in Europe: Community Engagement, Charitable Contribution, and Religious Activism in France, Switzerland, and Great Britain.

  • Baptiste Brodard

In France, as in other European countries, Muslim associations offer charitable services including the distribution of food parcels to low-income families, outreach to the homeless, academic suppor...

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Authority in Islam. What regulation? Proceedings of the symposium.

  • Michel Younès
  • Mohamed-Ali Mostfa

“It is often said: “”no clergy in Islam””. In the absence of a hierarchical and universal magisterial authority, what are the instances and figures that serve as regul...

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Bad guy or good guy? The framing of an imam

  • Noemi Trucco

In this paper, we investigate framing in the case of an imam in Switzerland. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of 175 articles from Swiss newspapers and public broadcasting websites in Ge...

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Breaking Ramadan in the city centre. The public presentation of a young Muslim association

  • Guillaume Chatagny

By Federico Biasca and Guillaume Chatagny "This article presents, describes, and analyses an event for breaking the fast organized in the public sphere by a local association of young Muslims in...

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Between Standardization And Otherness: Being A Muslim In The In The French Armed Forces

  • Elyamine Settoul

Already present since the colonisation process, the question of Islam within the French army has reappeared strongly with the settling down of the populations resulting from the great waves of indu...

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Exploring Islamic Social Work. Between Community and the Common Good

  • Hansjörg Schmid

This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it exp...