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Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World
Jack David Eller,Natalie Khazaal
- 284 pages
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Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World
Jack David Eller,Natalie Khazaal
About This Book
Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World offers a contemporary, cross-cultural look at nonbelief and nonreligion in Islam. Providing historical, conceptual, statistical, and ethnographic data on nonbelievers from Morocco to Egypt, Turkey, and Bangladesh, it explores the unique nature and challenges of nonreligion for Muslims.
It includes 11 chapters by experts on nonbelief, nonreligion, and atheism in an array of Muslim-majority countries. The book features multiple disciplines and offers both ethnographic and statistical information on this important, growing, but neglected population. It explores the unique nature of nonreligion in Islam, illustrating that nonbelief is specific to a particular religious tradition. It also examines how ex-Muslims navigate complexities and dangers of their societiesâespecially for womenâand how nonbelief and nonreligion do not equate to atheism or the total repudiation of religion or of Muslim identity.
This book is an outstanding resource for scholars and students of nonbelief, atheism, secularism, religion, and contemporary Islam.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: On Being a Nonbeliever in a Muslim Society
- 1 Patterns of Disbelief: Anti-Religious Discourse in the Heartlands of Islam, Past and Present
- 2 Mapping the Landscape of nonbelief, Freethinking, And Secular Muslimness in the Arab World
- 3 Once a Muslim, Always a Muslim?
- 4 A Critical Juncture? Atheism in Bangladesh and Its (Dis)Connections
- 5 The Secular-Religious Divide in Iran: An Analysis of GAMAANâs Online Surveys
- 6 The Cognitive Landslide: Pathways of Egyptian Atheists
- 7 Impious Camouflage: Egyptian Atheists Posing as Negligent Muslims
- 8 Impoliteness and Religionormativity: Arab Atheists on Talk Shows
- 9 Shoe-Ing the Atheist: Gendered Emotional Responses toward Nonreligion in Egypt
- 10 Leaving a Home That Wonât Leave Her: A MÄtic Understanding of Ex-Muslim Womenâs Experiences
- 11 Did Political Islam Fail? The Discursive Construction of Atheism and Nonreligion in Turkey
- Conclusion
- Index