Crescent over another horizon
Subtitle: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA
By: edited by María del Mar Logroño Narbona, Paulo G. Pinto, and John Tofik Karam
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781477302293; 9781477312186
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Muslims; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "De los prohibidos" : Muslims and Moriscos in colonial Spanish America / Karoline P. Cook; title: African rebellion and refuge on the edge of empire / John Tofik Karam; title: Ethnic and religious identification among Muslim East Indians in Suriname (1898/1954) / Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff; title: Institutionalizing Islam in Argentina : comparing community and identity configurations / Silvia montenegro; title: Conversion, revivalism, and tradition : the religious dynamics of Muslim communities in Brazil / Paulo G. Pinto; title: Guests of Islam : conversion and the institutionalization of Islam in Mexico / Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos; title: Cubans searching for a new faith in a new context / Luis Mesa Delmonte; title: Muslims in Martinique / Liliane Kuczynski; title: Forming Islamic religious identity among Trinidadians in the age of social networks / Halima-Sa'adia Kassim; title: Dis-covering a historical consciousness : the creation of a US Latina/o Muslim identity / Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez; title: Mapping Muslim communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida / Mirsad Krijestorac; title: Double-edged marginality and agency : Latina conversion to Islam / Yesenia King and Michael P. Perez.