Islamic traditions and Muslim youth in Norway
By: by Christine M. Jacobsen
Series: Muslim minorities -- v. 10; Muslim minorities -- v. 10.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9789004178908
Subjects: Children of immigrants; Muslim youth; Cultural assimilation; Muslims; Social conditions; Multiculturalism; Religious life; Islam
Other titles: Brill e-books.
Description: 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. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.