TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corbett,Rosemary R.
TI  - Making moderate Islam: Sufism, service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy 
T2  - RaceReligion
SN  - 9781503600843
AV  - BP188.8.U6 C67 2017
U1  - 297.09747/109051 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Sufism
KW  - United States
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Sufis
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Mosques
KW  - Voluntarism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - Soufisme
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Soufis
KW  - New York (État)
KW  - Musulmans
KW  - Acculturation
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : debating moderate Islam -- Islamic traditions and conservative liberalisms -- Service, anti-socialism, and contests to represent American Muslims -- Sufism and the moderate Islam of the new millennium -- From Sufism without politics to politics without Sufism -- The micro-politics of moderation -- The prophet's feminism : women's labor and women's leadership -- Islam in the age of Obama : what's more American than service? -- Conclusion : community service and the limits of inclusion
N2  - Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque," this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to Muslims. Instead, it looks at a century of pressures on religious minorities to conform to dominant American frameworks for race, gender, and political economy. These include the encouraging of community groups to provide social services to the dispossessed in compensation for the government's lack of welfare provisions in an aggressively capitalist environment. Calls for Muslim moderation in particular are also colored by racist and orientalist stereotypes about the inherent pacifism of Sufis with respect to other groups. The first investigation of the assumptions behind moderate Islam in our country, Making Moderate Islam is also the first to look closely at the history, lives, and ambitions of the those involved in Manhattan's contested project for an Islamic community center
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