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Wandering souls
- Title
- Wandering souls / Tobie Nathan ; translated by Stephen Muecke.
- Author
- Nathan, Tobie
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- viii, 150 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In September 2014, the French government entrusted Tobie Nathan with the task of counselling radicalized young people who had been drawn to jihadism and in this book he recounts his experiences of some of the young people he met and counselled. He describes what he heard, felt and perceived in his encounters with these young people and their loved ones as he tried to understand the forces running through them and tried to grasp what their fate held in store for them. In so doing, he shows that the history of radicalizations is not the history of 'natures' but of metamorphoses - an unpredictable journey, with moments of immobility punctuated by sudden intoxication at the thought of other futures. It is a history of wandering souls who find themselves unable to form a narrative of origin and in thrall to harmful forces but who may find a way home one day. This deeply humane and engaging book will be of great interest to everyone concerned with the issue of radicalization and with the deep and growing challenges our societies face in accommodating difference." --
- Uniform Title
- Âmes errantes. English
- Alternative Title
- Âmes errantes.
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Muslim youth > France > Attitudes
- Muslim youth > France > Social conditions
- Islamic fundamentalism > France
- Youth > Psychology
- Radicalization > France
- Radicalism > Psychological aspects
- Radicalism > Religious aspects > Islam
- Youth > France > Social conditions > 21st century
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Muslim youth > Attitudes
- Muslim youth > Social conditions
- Radicalization
- Youth > Social conditions
- France
- Note
- "First published in French as Les Âmes errantes © L'Iconoclaste, Paris, 2017"-- Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Secularity and the war of the gods -- The veil as membrane -- Filiation and affiliation -- Conversion and initiation -- Apocalypse -- Hashish and assassins -- Terror -- Abandoned children are political beings -- The foreignness of migrant children -- Generations.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-59
- ISBN
- 9781509534951
- 1509534954
- 9781509534968
- 1509534962
- LCCN
- 2019009981
- 40029501979
- OCLC
- 1083689120
- Author
- Nathan, Tobie, author.
- Title
- Wandering souls / Tobie Nathan ; translated by Stephen Muecke.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- English edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Nathan, Tobie. Wandering souls. Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2019 9781509534975 (DLC) 2019012902
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029501979
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-59