| Abstract: |
Differently to large parts of the scholarship assessing the impact of religion
on the integration of Muslim minorities in Europe, the case selection employed
in the present study allows for controlling relevant sociodemographic
variables, namely migration background or rather generation and nationality or
rather ethnicity. In contrast to the findings of a number of previous studies,
this article's results increase doubts regarding the explanatory power here of
"Islamic faith" and largely suggest a null finding hereon. Its findings show
that alternative variables have significant effects on Muslim integration,
such as generation, ethnicity, religiosity, gender, education, and age. Hence,
adherence to the Islam turns out to be a weak predictor here. However, it is
to be noted that significant effects for adherence to the Islamic faith were
found for individual items composing the index on democratic values, though
these findings don't appear to follow a homogenous pattern. |