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1st Edition

Anything but Orthodox Anthropological Observations of Islam in the 21st Century

Edited By Jack David Eller Copyright 2027

320 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

320 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

The book is a study of the dynamic, multi-faceted, and even unorthodox things that are happening within Muslim-majority societies. The mission is to bring together in a single volume an array of anthropological observations of individuals, groups, and movements in contemporary Islamic settings, focusing neither primarily on religion nor on nonreligion or secularism but on the range... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Dynamic Islam

Jack David Eller

Part I Unorthodox religiosity

1 Discussing the relationship with the invisible: paradoxes of the tension between orthodoxy and heterodoxy in a Moroccan shrine

Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

2 The state, ritual and gender: women’s Islamic practices in post-Soviet Uzbekistan

Dilfuza Djuraeva and Azim Malikov

3 The algorithmic faith: Islam, social media and transformation of faith in Bangladesh

Syed Arman Hossain and Abdullah Al Fahad

4 Lost cities and forced digital migration: the online reclamation of identity among Arab atheists and ex-Muslims

Dalia Obiedat

Part II Islam and economics

5 Debating currency, debating Islam: from the gold dinar to Bitcoin

M. Ashraful Mobin and Daromir Rudnyckyj

6 Market Islam, Muslim charisma, and the weight of material interests: the rise and fall of the Fethullah Gülen movement in Turkey

Joshua D. Hendrick

Part III Islam and gender

7 Islamic authority and women’s conversation: the majlis taklim of Raja Aisyah Sulaiman Riau

Julian Millie

8 Bargaining with patriarchy through online entrepreneurship in Islamic YouTube web series

Andina Dwifatma

9 Gender, religion, and heavy metal music in Indonesia: the case of Voice of Baceprot

Jack David Eller

10 Empowering pilgrimage: queer(feminist) and intersectional perspectives on Islamic rituals

Viola Thimm

11 Transgender rights movement and anti-trans countermovement in Bangladesh

Abdullah Hel Bubun, Mrittika Panre, and Nayeb Ishraf Khan

Part IV Islam, arts, and environments

12 Cubism is divine: Rasheed Araeen’s universalism and rebuttal of Eurocentric art history

Jonas Otterbeck

13 Eco-Islam: environmental crisis, Islamic reasoning, and alternative Islamic authorities

Thijl Sunier

14 Ottoman Things and the Making of Islamic Counter-Authority in Contemporary Turkey

Banu Senay and Christopher Houston.

Index

Editor(s)

Biography

Jack David Eller is Distinguished Professor Anthropology with Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India. His research interests include religion, religious violence, and secularism; ethnicity and ethnic conflict; and psychological anthropology. He is the author of over 20 books and the editor of several others, as well as series editor of Routledge’s book series “Anthropology of Now.”

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