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1 electronic resource (xii, 327 pages). |
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Muslim minorities ; v. 14
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Muslim minorities ; v. 14.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; A Note on Language and Sources; Introduction; Research on Islam and Muslims in Germany/Europe-A Brief Outline; Individualization of Religiosity; Issues and Perspectives; Conceptualization; Islam as a Discursive Tradition; Community; Crafting the Self; Social Identity and Group Dynamics; Outline; 1 Situating the Field and Methodological Reflections; Introducing MJD: A New Generation of Muslims; MJD's Beginnings; The Structure of MJD; Profile of the Participants; Local and National Connections; Coming Out in Public: The Scandal; Methodology: The Art of Fieldwork. |
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Entering the FieldMaking Use of Situational Analysis; The Social Position of the Fieldworker; Conducting Fieldwork in an Atmosphere of Mistrust; Who Is the Researcher?; Who Are the Listeners?; Suspending Judgment; As Way of Conclusion: On Conducting Fieldwork; 2 Making Sense of the City: The Religious Spaces of Young Muslim Women in Berlin; Introducing Berlin; Changing Sociological Landscapes; City Spaces Phase 1: The Arrival of Non-European Guest Workers in Berlin; The Socio-Historical Situation of Migrants from the Middle East; City Spaces Phase 2: Ethnic Businesses and Infrastructure. |
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City Spaces Phase 3: "Immigrants" and "Turks" Become "Muslims"Religion and the Urban; Structuring Islamic Communities; Mosques: Contested Religious Spaces; Identification with Religious Spaces; Ethnicity-Based Religious Spaces; The Reputation of Religious Spaces; Teaching and Presentation Style of Religious Spaces; Making Sense of Religious Spaces in the City; 3 Negotiating, Resisting and (Re)Constructing Othering; The Occidental and Oriental Other; The Role of the Other in Constructing the Nation; Migrants Entering the European Nation-State: The Cultural Other. |
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Migrants Born in Germany: The Religious OtherLooking at the Headscarf; The Tactics of Muslim Women; The Joking Tactic; The Rehearsal Tactic; The Normalization Tactic; Politics of Representation; The Corrective Tactics; The Headscarf as Social Capital; Contesting Representations; 4 Crafting the Religious Individual in a Faith Community; A Religious Ethos; The Religious Body; Objectification and De-Culturalization of Religion; Knowledge Formation in MJD; Distinguishing between Culture and Religion; Merging Internal Motivation and External Motions; Practicing How to Desire Correctly. |
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Acquiring an Islamic CharacterSubmission to God; Cultivation of a Religious State of Mind: Formation of the Unfree Subject?; 5 Trajectories of Religious Acts and Desires: Bargaining with Religious Norms and Ideals; Defining Religious Agency; Situating Social Behavior in a Discursive Tradition; Positioning Behavior as Religious; The Religious Subject; Trajectories of Religious Acts; Trajectory 1: Effort; Trajectory 2: Exception; Trajectory 3: Contesting Knowledge; Trajectory 4: Using Multiple References; Pluralization of Religious Acts and Behavior; Alteration of Acceptable Performances. |
| Summary |
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth's religious identity formation and their everyday life engagement with Islam. It deals with the reconstruction of selfhood and the collective content of identity formation in an urban and transnational setting. |
| Note |
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Identification (Religion)
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Identification (Religion) |
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Muslim women -- Germany -- Berlin -- Relgious life.
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Muslim women. |
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Germany -- Berlin. |
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Muslim youth -- Religious life -- Germany -- Berlin.
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Muslim youth -- Religious life. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The religious identity of young Muslim women in Berlin Leiden ; Brill, 2013. 9789004221161 (hardback : alk. paper) (DLC) 2013006190 |
| ISBN |
9789004221161 hardback : alkaline paper |
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9789004251311 e-book |
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9004251316 (electronic book) |
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9789004251311 |
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9004221166 |
