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Being German, becoming Muslim, race, religion, and conversion in the new Europe, Esra Ozyurek

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Being German, becoming Muslim, race, religion, and conversion in the new Europe, Esra Ozyurek

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Being German, becoming Muslim

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

870336334

Responsibility statement

Esra Ozyurek

Series statement

Princeton studies in Muslim politics

Sub title

race, religion, and conversion in the new Europe

Summary

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<U+0127> 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.--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

Germanizing Islam and racializing Muslims -- Giving Islam a German face -- Establishing distance from immigrant Muslims -- Double fall: East German conversion after the Berlin Wall -- Being Muslim as a way of becoming German -- Salafism as the future of european Islam?

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Race, religion, and conversion in the new Europe

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