With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people's rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.
With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people's rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.
Karin Van Nieuwkerk is an anthropologist and professor of contemporary Islam in Europe and the Middle East at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her many books include Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West , Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt’s Islamic Revival, and Islam and Popular Culture.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Moving In and Out of Islam (Karin van Nieuwkerk) 2. Section I. Conceptualizing Religious Change * 1. People Do Not Convert but Change: Critical Analysis of Concepts of Spiritual Transitions (William Barylo) * 2. Moving In or Moving Toward? Reconceptualizing Conversion to Islam as a Liminal Process (Juliette Galonnier) * 3. Understanding Religious Apostasy, Disaffiliation, and Islam in Contemporary Sweden (Daniel Enstedt) 3. Section II. (De)conversion, Race, Culture, and Ethnicity) * 4. Giving Islam a German Face (Esra Özyürek) * 5. Merging Culture with Religion: Trajectories of Slovak and Czech Muslim Converts since 1989 (Gabriel Pirický) * 6. Moving into Shi a Islam: The “Process of Subjectification” among Shi a Women Converts in London (Yafa Shanneik) * 7. Can a Tatar Move Out of Islam? (Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska and Michä yszczarz) 4. Section III. Transnational Movement and Moving between Traditions * 8. Religious Authority and Conversions in Berlin’s Sufi Communities (Oleg Yarosh) * 9. Deradicalization through Conversion to Traditional Islam: Hamza Yusuf’s Attempt to Revive Sacred Knowledge within a North Atlantic Context (Haifaa Jawad) * 10. Escaping the Limelight: The Politics of Opacity and the Life of a Dutch Preacher in the UK (Martijn de Koning) 5. Section IV. Narratives and Experiences of Moving Out of Islam * 11. British Muslim Converts: Comparing Conversion and Deconversion Processes To and From Islam (Mona Alyedreessy) * 12. In the Closet: The Concealment of Apostasy among Ex-Muslims in Britain and Canada (Simon Cottee) * 13. Religious Skepticism and Nonbelieving in Egypt (Karin van Nieuwkerk) * 14. “God never existed, and I was looking for him like crazy!” Muslim Stories of Deconversion (Teemu Pauha and Atefeh Aghaee) 6. Section V. Debating Apostasy and Deconversion * 15. Faith No More: The Views of Lithuanian Converts to Islam on Deconversion (Egd nas Räius) * 16. Let’s Talk about Apostasy! Swedish Imams, Apostasy Debates, and Police Reports on Hate Crimes and (De)conversion (Göran Larsson) 7. Contributors 8. Index
1. Introduction: Moving In and Out of Islam (Karin van Nieuwkerk) 2. Section I. Conceptualizing Religious Change * 1. People Do Not Convert but Change: Critical Analysis of Concepts of Spiritual Transitions (William Barylo) * 2. Moving In or Moving Toward? Reconceptualizing Conversion to Islam as a Liminal Process (Juliette Galonnier) * 3. Understanding Religious Apostasy, Disaffiliation, and Islam in Contemporary Sweden (Daniel Enstedt) 3. Section II. (De)conversion, Race, Culture, and Ethnicity) * 4. Giving Islam a German Face (Esra Özyürek) * 5. Merging Culture with Religion: Trajectories of Slovak and Czech Muslim Converts since 1989 (Gabriel Pirický) * 6. Moving into Shi a Islam: The “Process of Subjectification” among Shi a Women Converts in London (Yafa Shanneik) * 7. Can a Tatar Move Out of Islam? (Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska and Michä yszczarz) 4. Section III. Transnational Movement and Moving between Traditions * 8. Religious Authority and Conversions in Berlin’s Sufi Communities (Oleg Yarosh) * 9. Deradicalization through Conversion to Traditional Islam: Hamza Yusuf’s Attempt to Revive Sacred Knowledge within a North Atlantic Context (Haifaa Jawad) * 10. Escaping the Limelight: The Politics of Opacity and the Life of a Dutch Preacher in the UK (Martijn de Koning) 5. Section IV. Narratives and Experiences of Moving Out of Islam * 11. British Muslim Converts: Comparing Conversion and Deconversion Processes To and From Islam (Mona Alyedreessy) * 12. In the Closet: The Concealment of Apostasy among Ex-Muslims in Britain and Canada (Simon Cottee) * 13. Religious Skepticism and Nonbelieving in Egypt (Karin van Nieuwkerk) * 14. “God never existed, and I was looking for him like crazy!” Muslim Stories of Deconversion (Teemu Pauha and Atefeh Aghaee) 6. Section V. Debating Apostasy and Deconversion * 15. Faith No More: The Views of Lithuanian Converts to Islam on Deconversion (Egd nas Räius) * 16. Let’s Talk about Apostasy! Swedish Imams, Apostasy Debates, and Police Reports on Hate Crimes and (De)conversion (Göran Larsson) 7. Contributors 8. Index
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