Studying Islam in Practice (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Marranci, Gabriele

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents Islam as a lived religion through observation and discussion of how Muslims from a variety of countries, traditions and views practice their religion. The range of fascinating case studies will also help students understand how research into religious practice is carried out, and what issues and challenges arise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317914242
• Artikelnr.: 40299867

Autorenporträt

Gabriele Marranci is an anthropologist working on religion with a specialization in Muslim societies. He is Director of the Study of Contemporary Muslim Lives research hub at Macquarie University in Australia, and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University. His books include Jihad beyond Islam (Berg 2006), The Anthropology of Islam (Berg 2007), Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons (Continuum 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Studying Islam in Practice (GABRIELE MARRANCI) 1. On Fasting
in Fes: Learning about Food, Family, and Friendship during Fieldwork in
Morocco (MARIA F. CURTIS) 2. Studying the Muslim Family Law Courts in
Morocco (LAWRENCE ROSEN) 3. Hymenoplasty and the Relationship between
Doctors and Muftis in Egypt (L.L. WYNN) 4. Studying Fatwas: Global and
Local Answers to Religious Questions (DAVID DRENNAN) 5. The hajj: its
meaning for Turkish Muslims (CAROL L. DELANEY) 6. Studying Islam and the
City: The Case of Istanbul (CHRIS HOUSTON) 7. Study of Shi'a Muslim Women
in Southern California (BRIDGET BLOMFIELD) 8. Studying Indonesian Muslim
masculinities in Indonesia and Australia (PAMELA NILAN) 9. An ethnographer
among the Ahmadis: learning Islam in the suburbs (MARZIA BALZANI) 10.
Women, Sexuality and Mosques (S. DERVLA SHANNAHAN) 11. Where heaven meets
land: Music and Islam in everyday life and encounters (CARIN BERG) 12.
Reflections at a Time of Transformation: American Muslim Artists Reach Out
to New Yorkers in the Aftermath of September 11 (MUNIR JIWA) 13. Global
Muslim Markets in London (JOHAN FISCHER) 14. Researching Muslim Converts:
Islamic Teachings, Political Context and the Researcher's Personality (LEON
MOOSAVI) 15. Studying Muslims and Cyberspace (GARY BUNT) 16. Women Studying
for the Afterlife (MAREIKE J. WINKELMANN) 17. Experiencing Islamic
Education in Indonesia (RON LUKENS-BULL)