The Religious Studies Project

Podcast: Interrogating the Interrogators: Managing Muslims in Germany

In this episode host Candace Mixon and guest Schirin Amir-Moazami discuss Amir-Moazami’s book, Interrogating Muslims: The Liberal-Secular Matrix of Integration as a starting point in discussing topics such state categorizations of religion in the liberal state and considerations of religion and secularism. Through examples of German swimming classes and citizenship tests, Amir-Moazami suggests that in relational moments, there are places to look for state reinforcement of its own bodily needs and governing of subjects that cannot govern themselves.

#Assimilation, Citizenship, Critical Secular, Foucault, Germany, Governmentality, Islam, Muslims, pluralism, Power, Secularization thesis, Subject-making