Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
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Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics

Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe

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Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics

Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe

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Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts—a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European values. Being German, Becoming Muslim explores how Germans come to Islam within this antagonistic climate, how they manage to balance their love for Islam with their society's fear of it, how they relate to immigrant Muslims, and how they shape debates about race, religion, and belonging in today's Europe.Esra Özyürek looks at how mainstream society marginalizes converts and questions their national loyalties. In turn, converts try to disassociate themselves from migrants of Muslim-majority countries and promote a denationalized Islam untainted by Turkish or Arab traditions. Some German Muslims believe that once cleansed of these accretions, the Islam that surfaces fits in well with German values and lifestyle. Others even argue that being a German Muslim is wholly compatible with the older values of the German Enlightenment. Being German, Becoming Muslim provides a fresh window into the connections and tensions stemming from a growing religious phenomenon in Germany and beyond.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781400852710
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Germanizing Islam and Racializing Muslims
  8. Chapter 1: Giving Islam a German Face
  9. Chapter 2: Establishing Distance from Immigrant Muslims
  10. Chapter 3: East German Conversions to Islam after the Collapse of the Berlin Wall
  11. Chapter 4: Being Muslim as a Way of Becoming German
  12. Chapter 5: Salafism as the Future of European Islam?
  13. Chapter 6: Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index