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“I’m just an Imam, not Superman”: Imams in Switzerland: Between Stakeholder Objects and Self-Interpretation
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Current debates on Islam in Europe often focus on imams as religious leaders and key figures in integration politics. Muslim associations undergoing processes of transformation and generational change have equally high expectations of imams. This article uses stakeholder theory to analyse the current situation of imams and draws on empirical material from Switzerland to illustrate both multi-faceted stakeholder claims and imams’ self-reflections on role conflicts they experience. It indicates that imams and Muslim associations tend to develop different coping strategies leading either to an enlarged profile for imams or to a differentiation of functions and professions in the social and religious fields.
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“As Schmid and others have argued, imams are not super-men, and there follows from the growing and very diverse expectations of Muslim religious professionals a differentiation of tasks as people specialise.”
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- Authors
- Schmid, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Fribourg (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Schmid, Hansjörg
- ORCID
- Schmid, Hansjörg
- Venue
- Journal of Muslims in Europe
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2020-01-02
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 64-95
- ISSN
- 2211-792X (ISSN-L)
- 2211-7954
- OpenAlex
- W2997518152
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 3.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Muslims in Europe (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Theology and Canon Law Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Keywords
- imams, Muslim associations, stakeholder theory, role conflict, integration politics, Islam in Europe, generational change, coping strategies, religious leadership, Switzerland
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