Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-17890-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 890 g

Reihe: Muslim Minorities

A major question regarding Islam in Europe concerns the religiosity of “Muslim youth” – a category currently epitomizing both the fears and hopes of multicultural Europe. How are Islamic traditions engaged and reworked by young people, born and educated in European societies, and which modes of religiosity will they shape in the future? Providing an in-depth ethnographic account from Norway, this book engages comparative research on Islam and young Muslims from across Europe, focusing on Islamic revitalization, Muslim identity politics, changing configurations of religious authority, and the formation of gendered religious subjectivities. The author discusses anthropological and other social science theorizing in order to examine religious continuities and discontinuities in a context of international migration, globalization, and secular modernity.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Islam and Muslims in Europe, contemporary religious and secular formations, identity politics, gender, and youth culture. Students and researchers in anthropology, migration, cultural and religious studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobsen, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt

Über Autor(innen)

Christine M. Jacobsen, Ph.D. (2006) in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen, is specialized in migration, gender and religious studies, and has published on Islam and Muslims in Norway, including Tilhørighetens mange former. Unge muslimer i Norge (UniPax, 2002). She is the Research Leader of IMER Bergen and a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.