Everyday Life Practices of Muslims in Europe

Edited by Erkan Toguslu

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Muslims in Europe and the preservation of their religious-ethnic particularities. Everyday Life Practices of Muslims in Europe explores how Muslims give meaning to Islam on a day-to-day basis. The contributions look at concrete practices, identities, memories, and normalities in daily Muslim life and provide insights to the complexities of identities. They examine Muslims’ use of and construction of spaces, daily practices, forms of interaction, and modes of thinking in different areas, resulting in a thorough analysis and framework of Muslims’ day-to-day life through topical chapters on food, space, entertainment, marriage, and mosque, covering both extent of hybridity and preservation of religious-ethnic particularities.

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Contributors: Rachel Brown (Wilfrid Laurier University), Mohammed El-Bachouti (UPF), Valentina Fedele (Università della Calabria), Diletta Guidi (École Pratique des Hautes Études), Ossame Hegazy (Bauhaus, University, Weimar), Ajmal Hussain (Aston University), Jana Jevtic (Central European University), Elsa Mescoli (University of Liège), Wim Peumans (KU Leuven), Sumeyye Ulu Sameto?lu (EHESS), Leen Sterck,Thijl Sunier (VU University Amsterdam), Erkan To?u?lu (KU Leuven)
Introduction
1. Everyday Experiences, Moral Dilemmas and the Making of Muslim Life Worlds: Introductory Reflections
Thijl Sunier

Part I: Consumption and Food Practices
2. Islamic Food Practices in a Migration Context: An Ethnography Among Moroccan Women in Milan (Italy)
Elsa Mescoli
3. “Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are.” The Literal Consumption of Identity for North African Muslims in Paris (France)
Rachel Brown
4. Dietary Practices and the Bargaining of an Islamic Lifestyle Among Unorganized European Muslims: Some Reflections from French Diasporic Muslims
Valentina Fedele
5. Politics of Consumption: Th e Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign and “Being” Muslim in Tower Hamlets
Jana Jevtic

Part II: Individualization, Courtship and Leisure Practices
6. Individualization of Muslim Religious Practices: Contextual Creativity of Second-Generation Moroccans in Spain
Mohammed El-Bachouti
7. The Self-Arranged Marriage: Modern Muslim Courtship Practices in the Netherlands
Leen Sterckx
8. Sexual Subjectivities in a Transnational Social Field: The Family Visit
Wim Peumans
9. Halalscapes: Leisure, Fun and Aesthetics Spaces Created by Young Muslim Women of the Gülen Movement in France and Germany
Sümeyye Ulu Sametoğlu

Part III: Translocal Space and Artistic Expressions
10. Artistic Reactions to Contemporary Controversies Related to Islam
Diletta Guidi
11. (Dis)locating Muslims in Britain Today
Ajmal Hussain
12. Towards a German Mosque: Rethinking the Mosque's Meaning in Germany by Applying Socio-Semiotics
Ossama Hegazy

Conclusion
13. Muslims and Everyday Life Practices in Europe
Erkan Toğuşlu

About the Authors

Format: Edited volume - paperback

Size: 240 × 160 mm

ISBN: 9789462700321

Publication: August 18, 2015

Series: Current Issues in Islam 3

Languages: English

Stock item number: 103685

Erkan Toğuşlu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at KU Leuven University, Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies.

Over heel veel zaken doen moslims er het zwijgen toe. Er is bijvoorbeeld heel wat volksdevotie, maar dat is in feite verboden en dus .. bestaat het zogezegd niet. In Europa vieren ook veel moslims kerstmis onder invloed van het christendom, maar ook dat bestaat zogezegd niet. Diverse auteurs buigen zich over moslimgebruiken die onder invloed van de Europese context aan verandering onderhevig zijn. Buitenstaanders hebben het gevoel dat de moslimcultuur zich onwrikbaar oplegt aan de westerse cultuur, maar uit deze studie blijkt het tegendeel. Vele gebruiken (voedingspatronen, huwelijksgebruiken, seksualiteitsbeleving …) veranderen wel degelijk in een poging om te accultureren, maar onder invloed van de media die enkel de extremen in beeld brengt, geloven vele Westerlingen in een fundamentalistische en statische islam. Het is aan de andere kant wel een feit dat onder invloed van het fundamentalisme deze pogingen tot acculturatie onder druk komen te staan. De samenleving met de islam vormt dan ook een van de grootste uitdagingen van de toekomst in het Westen. (ES) ChristusRex.be


 
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