Finding Mecca in America : How Islam is becoming an American religion /

The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is graduall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bilici, Mucahit, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Temas:
2000-2099
Muslims > United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Islam > United States.
Musulmans > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Islam > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Islam.
Muslims > Social conditions.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Muslim life and American forms
  • Cultural settlement. Finding Mecca in America : Muslim directionality and the codification of American space ; The English language and Islam : genealogy of an encounter ; Homeland insecurity : how immigrant Muslims naturalize America in Islam
  • Citizenship practices. Awakening citizenship : rights meet their bearers ; Seeking kinship through Abraham : Muslim interfaith activism ; Funny jihad : Muslim comedy takes flight
  • Conclusion : on appropriation and inhabitation.

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