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The practice of Islam in the United States, spanning more than a century, has a contentious history that has escalated over the past decade. Debates have raged over Islam's articles of faith, especially within an American context, and its practitioners' intent. Some characterize these arguments as a clash between a white, evangelical majority and a Muslim minority, or they see it as evidence of the divide between tolerant liberals and close-minded conservatives. Casting this conflict as a generic struggle between us and them, Nadia Marzouki argues, is a gross oversimplification of Islam's development in America. In Islam: An American Religion, Marzouki investigates how Islam is lived, how it has changed, and how its identity has overlapped with American foreign policy toward the Muslim world. Revisiting the uproar over the construction of mosques, the perceived threat of encroaching Shar'ia law, and the overseas promotion of America's secular democratic traditions, Marzouki finds that public tensions over Islam in the United States reflect more of the West's ambivalence toward freedom of speech and political culture than the religion's purported agenda. Her unbiased portrait highlights American Islam's open outlook, which embodies and advances the core principles of the American political project. -- Provided by publisher
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword, by Olivier Roy -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the American Edition: A Euro-American Debate over Islam -- Introduction -- 1. Muslim Americans: A Religious Minority Like Any Other? -- 2. The Mosque Controversies: Moral Offense and Religious Liberty -- 3. The Anti-Sharia Movement -- 4. The Face of Anti-Muslim Populism -- 5. Forcing the First Amendment: American Exporting of Religious Freedom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
In: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Frontmatter --Contents --Foreword --Acknowledgments --Introduction to the American Edition: A Euro-American Debate Over Islam --Introduction --1. Muslim Americans: A Religious Minority Like Any Other? --2. The Mosque Controversies: Moral Offense and Religious Liberty --3. The Anti-Sharia Movement --4. The Face of Anti-Muslim Populism --5. Forcing the First Amendment: American Exporting of Religious Freedom --Conclusion --Notes --Selected Bibliography --Index.
Nadia Marzouki is a research fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. She is the coeditor, with Olivier Roy, of Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World(2013) and, with Duncan McDonnell and Olivier Roy, of Saving the People: How Populist Parties Hijack Religion(2016).
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In: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Using arguments that borrow from the themes and forms of European disputes, Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how, paradoxically, Islam as built in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense—first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the formatting of Islam as a faith. In Islam: An American Religion, Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has developed a major stake in American politics. Focusing on the period from 2008 to 2013, she revisits the uproar over the construction of mosques, legal disputes around the prohibition of Islamic law and foreign law, and the overseas promotion of religious freedom. She argues that public controversies over Islam in the United States primarily reflects the American public's profound divisions and ambivalence toward the meaning and legitimacy of liberal secular democracy.
Englisch
Columbia University Press
9780231176804, 0231176805, 9780231543927
XIV, 266 Seiten
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