ISBN:
9781137554963
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 282 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
History
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
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Printed edition
Keywords:
Science
;
Economic development.
;
Islam.
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Sociology.
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Religion and sociology.
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Cultural studies.
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Europa
;
Nordamerika
;
Muslim
;
Einwanderer
;
Identität
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Abstract:
The authors in this book criticize the essentialist approach to the concept of culture which reduces all diasporic Muslims to one category and ignores other important factors that shape the attitudes and behaviors of Muslims in the West, particularly their socio-economic status, gender, age, education, social class, and attitude toward religion and the Western lifestyle. The majority of Muslims in North America and Europe are reluctant to be reduced to 'Muslim,' although some of them feel obliged to accept the label. In this volume, the various chapters reveal that diasporic Muslims are heterogeneous given their diverse cultures and ethnicities; they are actually divided, not united, and have different views and interpretations of Islam and various attitudes and representations of Western realities. Due to their marginalization and often low social status, some Muslims turn to religion and traditional values and practices to overlook for their socio-economic exclusion from the European or American society
DOI:
10.1057/9781137554963
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