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Moving in and out of Islam /

<P>Embracing a new religion, or leaving one?s faith, usually constitutes a significant milestone in a person?s life. While a number of scholars have examined the reasons why people convert to Islam, few have investigated why people leave the faith and what the consequences are for doing so. Ta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2018]
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Introduction: Moving In and Out of Islam (Karin van Nieuwkerk); Section I. Conceptualizing Religious Change; 1. People Do Not Convert but Change: Critical Analysis of Concepts of Spiritual Transitions (William Barylo); 2. Moving In or Moving Toward? Reconceptualizing Conversion to Islam as a Liminal Process (Juliette Galonnier); 3. Understanding Religious Apostasy, Disaffiliation, and Islam in Contemporary Sweden (Daniel Enstedt); Section II. (De)conversion, Race, Culture, and Ethnicity); 4. Giving Islam a German Face (Esra Özyürek)
  • 5. Merging Culture with Religion: Trajectories of Slovak and Czech Muslim Converts since 1989 (Gabriel Pirický)6. Moving into Shi'a Islam: The "Process of Subjectification" among Shi'a Women Converts in London (Yafa Shanneik); 7. Can a Tatar Move Out of Islam? (Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska and Michał Łyszczarz); Section III. Transnational Movement and Moving between Traditions; 8. Religious Authority and Conversions in Berlin's Sufi Communities (Oleg Yarosh)
  • 9. Deradicalization through Conversion to Traditional Islam: Hamza Yusuf's Attempt to Revive Sacred Knowledge within a North Atlantic Context (Haifaa Jawad)10. Escaping the Limelight: The Politics of Opacity and the Life of a Dutch Preacher in the UK (Martijn de Koning); Section IV. Narratives and Experiences of Moving Out of Islam; 11. British Muslim Converts: Comparing Conversion and Deconversion Processes To and From Islam (Mona Alyedreessy); 12. In the Closet: The Concealment of Apostasy among Ex-Muslims in Britain and Canada (Simon Cottee)
  • 13. Religious Skepticism and Nonbelieving in Egypt (Karin van Nieuwkerk)14. "God never existed, and I was looking for him like crazy!" Muslim Stories of Deconversion (Teemu Pauha and Atefeh Aghaee); Section V. Debating Apostasy and Deconversion; 15. Faith No More: The Views of Lithuanian Converts to Islam on Deconversion (Egdūnas Račius); 16. Let's Talk about Apostasy! Swedish Imams, Apostasy Debates, and Police Reports on Hate Crimes and (De)conversion (Göran Larsson); Contributors; Index