Organizing Muslims and integrating Islam in Germany : new developments in the 21st century / by Kerstin Rosenow-Williams.

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Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; The Research Question; Structure of the Book; 2. Studying Islamic Organizations: Empirical and Theoretical Approaches; Existing Studies on Muslim Life in Germany and the Missing Link to Organizational Sociology; Early Muslim Presence in Germany; The Arrival of Muslim Migrant Workers; The Integration/Segregation Debate; Quantitative Studies; Qualitative Studies; Comparative Studies; Transnational Studies

Criticism of the Shortcomings of Existing StudiesThe Institutional Environment and the Importance of Organizational Legitimacy: The Neoinstitutional Perspective; Sociological Neoinstitutionalism; Cognitive Sense-Making and the Individual Actor; The Organizational Field; The Three Dimensions of the Institutional Environment; The Concept of Legitimacy; Summary; The Organizations' Situation and the Relevance of Organizational Efficiency: The Contingency Approach; Early Open-System Approaches; The Research Program of the Contingency Approach; The Aston School; Summary

The Importance of Members' Interests within Organizations: The Research on Intermediary OrganizationsThe Blind Spot of Member Interests; Research on Intermediary Organizations; Membership versus Influence Logic; 3. A New Research Framework: Applying Organizational Sociology to the Study of Islamic Organizations; Conceptualizing the Theoretical Research Framework: between Institutional Expectations and Members' Interests; The Organizational Field of Islamic Organizations in Germany; Applying the Three Dimensions of the Institutional Environment to the German Context

The Importance of Organizational Legitimacy for Islamic OrganizationsOrganizational Ties Across Borders and Their Linkages to Legitimacy and Efficiency; The Effect of Contextual Factors on Organizational Behavior; The Importance of Members' Interests as an Additional Explanatory Variable; Patterns of Organizational Behavior between Adaptation and Protest; Homogeneous Behavior of Organizations: The Concepts of Isomorphism and Adaptation; Heterogeneous Behavior of Organizations: The Concepts of Decoupling and Protest; Three Research Hypotheses; Hypothesis 1: Adaptation

Hypothesis 2: Decoupling and ProtestConditions of Organizational Behavior; Hypothesis 3: Organizational Trajectories; Research Methods; The Selection of Case Studies; The Interview Methodology; Analyzing Organizational Documents; Summary of the Research Framework; 4. The Institutional Environment: A Macro-Perspective on the Changing Discourses on Islam, Integration, and Security in Germany; The Regulative Dimension: Parallel Policy Developments Regarding the Migration Regime, Security Issues, and the Legal Status of Islam; The Legal Status of Islam in Germany; The Changing Migration Regime

In Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany, Kerstin Rosenow-Williams analyzes the challenges faced by Islamic organizations in Germany since the beginning of the 21st century, providing original empirical insights based on an innovative sociological research perspective.

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