1st Edition

Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities Visible and Invisible Muslims

Edited By Nadia Jeldtoft, Jørgen Nielsen Copyright 2012
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

In the past decade Muslims in Europe have been the subject of heated debates on the place and role of religion in the public space. Research into the issues involved has often used visible and formalised expressions of Muslim religiosity as its empirical point of departure. This book instead examines the microlevel workings of Muslim minority religiosity to offer a new perspective on these... Read more

1. Introduction: Methods in the Study on "non-organized" Muslim Minorities Nadia Jeldtoft and Jørgen S. Nielsen

Part I: Methods

2. Studying Muslims and constructing Islamic Identity Safet Bectovic

3. Lived Islam – Religious Identity with "non-organized" Muslim Minorities Nadia Jeldtoft

4. Context, focus and new perspectives in the study of Muslim religiosity Tina G. Jensen

5. Ritualization among young adult Muslims in Malmö and Copenhagen Jonas Otterbeck

6. Excuse me, which radical organization are you a member of? Reflections on methods to study highly religious, but non-organized Muslims Lene Kühle

7. Salafi Jihadism: relying on fieldwork to study un-organized and clandestine phenomena Ann-Sophie Hemmingsen

8. Understanding and Approaching Muslim Visibilities: Lessons Learned From a Fieldwork based Study of Muslims in Copenhagen Garbi Schmidt

9. Faith intersections and Muslim women in the European Microcosm: notes towards the study of non-organized Islam Sara Silvestri

Part II: Contexts

10. Contexts of immigrant receptivity and immigrant religious outcomes: the case of Muslims in Western Europe Phillip Connor

11. Young people’s attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden Pieter Bevelander and Jonas Otterbeck

12. Democracy and denomination: democratic values among Muslim minorities and the majority population in Denmark Peter Gundelach

13. Generational differences in ethnic and religious attachment and their interrelation. A study among Muslim minorities in the Netherlands Mieke Maliepaard, Marcel Lubbers and Merove Gijsberts

Biography

Nadia Jeldtoft is a PhD Fellow at the Centre for European Islamic Thought in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jørgen S. Nielsen is Danish National Research Foundation Professor and Director at the Centre for European Islamic Thought in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.