Israel may remain an officially Jewish state, with no “church”-state separation, and with an orthodox majority with a presence in politics and strong religious attachments, but the country is experiencing a “secularization below the radar,” said Guy Ben-Porot, a political scientist at Ben-Gurion University at a recent meeting at Columbia University in New York.
Globalized Islam – Interview with Olivier Roy
In 2002, after years of work on political Islam, French scholar Olivier Roy published a major book on “globalized Islam”. A revised and updated version of this work has now been published in English.
Olivier Roy,Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah, London: Hurst, 2004 – or click here if you prefer to order the US edition (published by Columbia University Press).
The interview was conducted online in November 2004. Olivier Roy was interviewed by Jean-Francois Mayer.