Muslim soldiers, Muslim chaplains: the accommodation of Islam in Western militaries

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Notes

1. The articles present findings from the workshop ‘The Formatting of Islam: Religious Accommodation in Prisons and the Military’, which took place at the European University Institute, Florence, in February 2013 in the framework of the research project ReligioWest.

2. The ReligioWest project functioned as a focal point for different directions in research on chaplaincy. It brought together specialists in the field for a workshop and informal exchanges in Florence, Paris and Berlin in the period from May 2012 until March 2013, taking full advantage of individuals’ expertise for a multidisciplinary and methodologically pluralist approach to the subject. The auctorial ‘we’ in this article refers to the two editors who coordinated these academic exchanges and engaged in participant observation at gatherings of military chaplaincies on different occasions.

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Funding

We acknowledge the financial support of the European Research Council FP7-IDEAS-ERC-98998 for the workshop ‘The Formatting of Islam: Religious Accommodation in Prisons and the Military’ which took place at the European University Institute, Florence, in February 2013 in the framework of the research project ReligioWest, and for the preparation of the present publication.

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Kristina Stoeckl

Kristina Stoeckl is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Vienna and a collaborator of the ReligioWest project. Her research interests cover religion and politics in the European Union, political philosophy, church–state relations in Russia and Orthodox Christianity. She has recently published The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights (Routledge, 2014).

Olivier Roy

Olivier Roy is a professor at the European University Institute where he heads the Mediterranean Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and directs the ReligioWest project. He is a specialist on political Islam, Islam in the West, Afghanistan and the Middle East, and comparative religions. His recent books include The Failure of Political Islam (Harvard University Press, 1994), Globalized Islam (Columbia University Press, 2004) and Holy Ignorance (Columbia University Press, 2010).