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Being German, Becoming Muslim : Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe / Esra Özyürek.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics ; 56Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691162799
  • 9781400852710
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.5740943 23
LOC classification:
  • BP170.5.A1 O99 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Germanizing Islam and Racializing Muslims -- Chapter 1. Giving Islam a German Face -- Chapter 2. Establishing Distance from Immigrant Muslims -- Chapter 3. East German Conversions to Islam after the Collapse of the Berlin Wall -- Chapter 4. Being Muslim as a Way of Becoming German -- Chapter 5. Salafism as the Future of European Islam? -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts-a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European values. Being German, Becoming Muslim explores how Germans come to Islam within this antagonistic climate, how they manage to balance their love for Islam with their society's fear of it, how they relate to immigrant Muslims, and how they shape debates about race, religion, and belonging in today's Europe.Esra Özyürek looks at how mainstream society marginalizes converts and questions their national loyalties. In turn, converts try to disassociate themselves from migrants of Muslim-majority countries and promote a denationalized Islam untainted by Turkish or Arab traditions. Some German Muslims believe that once cleansed of these accretions, the Islam that surfaces fits in well with German values and lifestyle. Others even argue that being a German Muslim is wholly compatible with the older values of the German Enlightenment.Being German, Becoming Muslim provides a fresh window into the connections and tensions stemming from a growing religious phenomenon in Germany and beyond.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Germanizing Islam and Racializing Muslims -- Chapter 1. Giving Islam a German Face -- Chapter 2. Establishing Distance from Immigrant Muslims -- Chapter 3. East German Conversions to Islam after the Collapse of the Berlin Wall -- Chapter 4. Being Muslim as a Way of Becoming German -- Chapter 5. Salafism as the Future of European Islam? -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

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Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts-a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European values. Being German, Becoming Muslim explores how Germans come to Islam within this antagonistic climate, how they manage to balance their love for Islam with their society's fear of it, how they relate to immigrant Muslims, and how they shape debates about race, religion, and belonging in today's Europe.Esra Özyürek looks at how mainstream society marginalizes converts and questions their national loyalties. In turn, converts try to disassociate themselves from migrants of Muslim-majority countries and promote a denationalized Islam untainted by Turkish or Arab traditions. Some German Muslims believe that once cleansed of these accretions, the Islam that surfaces fits in well with German values and lifestyle. Others even argue that being a German Muslim is wholly compatible with the older values of the German Enlightenment.Being German, Becoming Muslim provides a fresh window into the connections and tensions stemming from a growing religious phenomenon in Germany and beyond.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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