"This book is based on three hundred interviews with European Muslim leaders from six European countries: Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The question of Islam in Europe is not a matter of global war and peace but raises difficult questions …
Young Muslims have begun to develop a subculture within Europe's growing Muslim population, its manifestations ranging from the proliferation of religious rap and streetwear featuring Islamic slogans to morally impeccable comedy. These forms of religiously permissible fun and yo…
Young Muslims have begun to develop a subculture within Europe's growing Muslim population, its manifestations ranging from the proliferation of religious rap and streetwear featuring Islamic slogans to morally impeccable comedy. These forms of religiously permissible fun and yo…
This is the first in-depth study of the thousands of white Americans who embraced Islam between 1800 and 1975. Drawing from little-known archives, interviews, and rare books and periodicals, Patrick D. Bowen unravels the complex social and religious factors that led to the emerg…
Introduction: The DIY Ethos -- A History in Fragments -- Indonesia Goes DIY -- Everyday Production -- The Indie Style -- On Cutting and Pasting: A Theory of DIY Fashion -- On Site and Sound: Music and Borders in a DIY World -- Conclusion: The Indie Mainstream Through rich ethno…
Kultur und Religion stehen seit jeher in einem engen Wechselverhältnis: Religion ist vielen Kulturen als wichtiges Symbol- und Wertesystem inhärent und fungiert als bedeutsamer Bestandteil kultureller Identitäten. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Analyse, die für Religion blind ist,…
With only a small remnant of Jews still living in the Maghrib at the beginning of the 21st century, the vast majority of today's inhabitants of North Africa have never met a Jew. Yet as this volume reveals, Jews were an integral part of the North African landscape from antiquity…
With only a small remnant of Jews still living in the Maghrib at the beginning of the 21st century, the vast majority of today's inhabitants of North Africa have never met a Jew. Yet as this volume reveals, Jews were an integral part of the North African landscape from antiquity…
