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Islam and its Stereotypes – challenge for the western culture

Autoři: Černá Zuzana

Rok: 2016

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Islam and its Stereotypes – challenge for the western culture	We can find a lot of stereotypes connected with Islam in contemporary Europe. We can read them in daily newspapers, popular novels, moreover we can also identify them in some European documents and last but not least they are present in some contemporary schoolbooks. Academic community and some Muslims as well deal with stereotypes in their works pointing out examples that selected statements are not true. The endeavour to combat stereotypes is important. However I suggest in my paper that the very question should be asked differently. Referring to prof. Balagangadhara’s work I argue that mere identification of new stereotypes, their collection and sorting into various groups according to their orientation is inappropriate. First, we should study what stereotypes mean and what role they play in our western culture. Second, we should explore what makes stereotypes into stereotypes in order to avoid different definitions of the phenomenon. I also argue that many stereotypes connected with Islam are not a product of the new era, but their roots go back to the first contacts between Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages. Their “surface” only changed.	Islam; and; its; Stereotypes; challenge; for; the; western; culture