This study shows how U.S. Christian Hardcore and Muslim 'Taqwacore' (taqwa means 'god consciousness' in Arabic) youth fuse traditional religions and punk rock music outside of religious institutions. It is part of a new cultural turn in the sociological study of religion that re…
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The events of September 11, 2001 increased occurrences of prejudice and discrimination toward Muslims and individuals identified as Muslims. In 2010, a proposal of an Islamic Center near Ground Zero sparked controversy and opinion polls indicated Americans experienced negative o…
This master's project addressed the void in multicultural counseling literature regarding culturally competent counseling with Muslims in the United States, particularly in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Drawing upon the ACA's multicultural counseling model, this project p…
Jihadi terrorism in Europe is a growing and ever-changing threat. Radicals embracing a militant brand of Islam were once an external threat, planning missions abroad before traveling to their Western targets. Jihadi terrorism has since evolved into an internal threat with the em…
Historically, the role of translators and interpreters has suffered from multiple misconceptions. In theaters of war, these linguists are often viewed as traitors and kidnapped, tortured, or killed; if they work in the terrorism arena, they may be prosecuted and convicted as ter…
Since 9-11 there has been increased attention toward the Muslim community in the United States. Researchers report that hate crimes and discrimination against Muslims increased in the United States following 9-11. These incidents have been explained through the construct called …
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between racism, negative attitudes toward Muslims (Islamophobia), religious dogmatism and attitudes toward war in the months following the 9/11 attacks. Understanding the relationships between these factors may help deci…
In the years since unification, the phenomenon of xenophobia ( Ausländerfeindlichkeit) in Germany has been largely understood as an "east German problem." The recent discovery of a series of murders by an underground cell of eastern German neo-Nazis – who killed eight Turkish im…
In early 2010, 11 Muslim college students were arrested for shouting down Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California – Irvine in protest of what they saw as Israel's unjust treatment of Palestinians. A year later, the students would be charged with plotting …
Living in an Islamophobic context where 49 percent of Americans polled in a 2010 ABC News Poll held an unfavorable view of Islam (Ali, Clifton, Duss, Fang, Keyes, & Shakir, 2011), visible American Muslims, particularly hijabi women and girls, experience a host of challenges. Rec…
Following the events that transpired after 9/11, evidence suggested that the mental health of Muslims across the globe was affected significantly, resulting in decreased wellness for members of this group. Hate crimes toward Muslims and those perceived as Muslim increased. Thoug…
This thesis examines how Muslims in Canada negotiate perceptions in their interactions with non-Muslims and other Muslims. What strategies do Muslims in Canada use to combat these perceptions? How do perceptions of Islam and Muslims impact Muslims' constructions of identities? I…
For centuries, impoverished Andalusians from southern Spain have emigrated to the New World, northern Europe and northern Spain as both immigrants and guest workers. Spain's transition to democracy and increasing affluence, which preceded wide-scale, rapid immigration in the 198…
This study, based on ethnographic interviews and fieldworks in New York City and Carbondale, Illinois, examines how the post-9/11 Islamophobia impacted the experiences and identity-articulations of people in the Bangladeshi diaspora in the United States. This study also examines…
This thesis examines the meeting of Near Eastern Muslims and Western European Christians in the 11th and 12th century Latin Crusader Kingdoms. As the crusaders were by definition enemies of the Islamic religion, and settled for several generations in the midst of the Islamic wor…
Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens to curb any prospect of East-West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has f…
"In Islam Through Western Eyes, Jonathan Lyons unpacks Western habits of thinking and writing about Islam, conducting a careful analysis of the West's grand totalizing narrative across one thousand years of history. He observes the discourse's corrosive effects on the social sci…
"In Islam Through Western Eyes, Jonathan Lyons unpacks Western habits of thinking and writing about Islam, conducting a careful analysis of the West's grand totalizing narrative across one thousand years of history. He observes the discourse's corrosive effects on the social sci…
