Islam, an American religion / Nadia Marzouki ; translated by C. Jon Delogu.

By:

Marzouki, Nadia [author.]

Contributor(s):

Delogu, Christopher Jon [translator.]

Language: English Original language: French Series: Religion, culture, and public lifePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780231543927
0231543921

Uniform titles:

Islam, une religion américaine? English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Islam, an American religion.DDC classification:

305.6/97 23

LOC classification:

BP67.U6 M3713 2017

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the American Edition: A Euro-American Debate Over Islam -- Introduction -- 1. Muslim Americans: A Religious Minority Like Any Other? -- 2. The Mosque Controversies: Moral Offense and Religious Liberty -- 3. The Anti-Sharia Movement -- 4. The Face of Anti-Muslim Populism -- 5. Forcing the First Amendment: American Exporting of Religious Freedom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense--first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith. Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has become so contentious in American politics. Focusing on the period from 2008 to 2013, she revisits the uproar over the construction of mosques, legal disputes around the prohibition of Islamic law, and the overseas promotion of religious freedom. She argues that public controversies over Islam in the United States primarily reflect the American public's profound divisions and ambivalence toward freedom of speech and the legitimacy of liberal secular democracy.

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Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense--first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith. Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has become so contentious in American politics. Focusing on the period from 2008 to 2013, she revisits the uproar over the construction of mosques, legal disputes around the prohibition of Islamic law, and the overseas promotion of religious freedom. She argues that public controversies over Islam in the United States primarily reflect the American public's profound divisions and ambivalence toward freedom of speech and the legitimacy of liberal secular democracy.