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A history of Islam in America : from the new world to the new world order /

This text traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries, through colonial and antebellum America, through world wars and civil rights struggles, to the contemporary era. It tells the stories of individual Muslims, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Islam in the 'New World: the historical setting
  • Islamic beliefs and practice in colonial and antebellum America
  • Conflating race, religion and progress: social change, national identity, and Islam in the post-Civil War era
  • Race, ethnicity, religion and citizenship: Muslim immigration at the turn of the twentieth century
  • Rooting Islam in America: community and institution building in the interwar period
  • Islam and American civil religion in the aftermath of World War II
  • A new religious America and post-colonial Muslim world: American Muslim institution building and activism, 1960s-1980s
  • Between experience and politics: American Muslims and the 'new world order', 1989-2008.