TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuartas,Victor H.
TI  - Hispanic Muslims in the United States: agency, identity, and religious commitment 
SN  - 1725253860
AV  - BP170.5.A1 C83 2020
U1  - 297.5/7408968073 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Wipf & Stock, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Islam
KW  - Hispanic Americans
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Muslim converts from Christianity
KW  - United States
KW  - Américains d'origine latino-américaine
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Chrétiens convertis à l'islam
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Sociology of Religion
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - The empirical case in this study is that of the Hispanic Catholic converts to Islam in the Washington, DC Metropolitan and New Jersey areas of the United States. The central research question is: To what extent do Hispanic Muslim converts play a role in making different choices regarding religious commitment and practice? The argument is that not only do both the more and less active converts play a central role in making choices during the pre-affiliation and post-affiliation stages, but that these choices can often be strategic in nature as they practice the new religion in the United States. These choices are shaped by multiple factors. This contributes to a new understanding of the prevailing debates among Muslims in Europe and the United States on the nature of Muslim minorities in the West-that Muslims here are not merely transplanted but are active participants of diverse expressions of local Islam. The evidence in my research shows that being less active does not mean converts do not play a role or make choices. Both more active and less active converts make choices based on multiple factors. This is especially significant as the main aim of this thesis is to show that the converts make choices and play a role in the post-affiliation stage and that these often have strategic elements
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