Islam And Popular Culture

Author : Karin van Nieuwkerk,Mark LeVine,Martin Stokes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477309049

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Islam and Popular Culture by Karin van Nieuwkerk,Mark LeVine,Martin Stokes Pdf

Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the “Arab Spring,” while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and populist attitudes toward popular culture. Not simply a “westernizing” or “secularizing” force, as some have asserted, popular culture now plays a growing role in defining what it means to be Muslim. With well-structured chapters that explain key concepts clearly, Islam and Popular Culture addresses new trends and developments that merge popular arts and Islam. Its eighteen case studies by eminent scholars cover a wide range of topics, such as lifestyle, dress, revolutionary street theater, graffiti, popular music, poetry, television drama, visual culture, and dance throughout the Muslim world from Indonesia, Africa, and the Middle East to Europe. The first comprehensive overview of this important subject, Islam and Popular Culture offers essential new ways of understanding the diverse religious discourses and pious ethics expressed in popular art productions, the cultural politics of states and movements, and the global flows of popular culture in the Muslim world.

Author : Andrew N. Weintraub
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136812293

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Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia by Andrew N. Weintraub Pdf

Home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a popular culture, or popular cultures of Islam that are mass mediated, commercialized, pleasure-filled, humorous, and representative of large segments of society. During the last forty years, popular forms of Islam, targeted largely towards urbanized youth, have played a key role in the Islamisation of Indonesia and Malaysia. This book focuses on these forms and the accompanying practices of production, circulation, marketing, and consumption of Islam. Dispelling the notion that Islam is monolithic, militaristic, and primarily Middle Eastern, the book emphasizes its dynamic, contested, and performative nature in contemporary South East Asia. Written by leading scholars alongside media figures, such as Rhoma Irama and Ishadi SK, the case studies although not focused on theology per se, illuminate how Muslims (and non-Muslims) in Indonesia and Malaysia make sense of their lives within an increasingly pervasive culture of Islamic images, texts, film, songs, and narratives.

Author : Sophia Rose Arjana
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498536530

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Veiled Superheroes by Sophia Rose Arjana Pdf

This groundbreaking study examines Muslim female superheroes within a matrix of Islamic theology, feminism, and contemporary political discourse. Through a close reading of texts including Ms. Marvel, Qahera, and The 99, Sophia Rose Arjana argues that these powerful and iconic characters reflect independence and agency, reflecting the diverse lives of Muslim girls and women in the world today.

Author : Iraj Omidvar,Anne R. Richards
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313379628

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Muslims and American Popular Culture [2 Volumes] by Iraj Omidvar,Anne R. Richards Pdf

Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam. Unfortunately, American mass media representations of Muslims--whether in news or entertainment--are typically negative and one-dimensional. As a result, Muslims are frequently viewed negatively by those with minimal knowledge of Islam in America. This accessible two-volume work will help readers to construct an accurate framework for understanding the presence and depictions of Muslims in American society. These volumes discuss a uniquely broad array of key topics in American popular culture, including jihad and jihadis; the hejab, veil, and burka; Islamophobia; Oriental despots; Arabs; Muslims in the media; and mosque burnings. Muslims and American Popular Culture offers more than 40 chapters that serve to debunk the overwhelmingly negative associations of Islam in American popular culture and illustrate the tremendous contributions of Muslims to the United States across an extended historical period. Identifies the contributions of Muslims to American fiction, poetry, music, food, architecture, and other cultural forms to document the breadth of their contributions Highlights the ways in which Muslims have been, and continue to be, routinely depicted negatively in American literature, film, and religious discourse, and documents the potential effects that such depictions can have on individual Muslims and their communities Offers readers useful tools that allow them to apply a critical eye to the representations of Muslims in the news

Author : T. Daniels
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137318398

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Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia by T. Daniels Pdf

The Muslim-majority nations of Malaysia and Indonesia are known for their extraordinary arts and Islamic revival movements. This collection provides an extensive view of dance, music, television series, and film in rural, urban, and mass-mediated contexts and how pious Islamic discourses are encoded and embodied in these public cultural forms.

Author : Anne R. Richards,Iraj Omidvar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:931622169

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Muslims and American Popular Culture by Anne R. Richards,Iraj Omidvar Pdf

Author : Anna Piela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Islam and culture
ISBN : 1138045381

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Islam and Popular Culture by Anna Piela Pdf

Author : Frank Peter,Sarah Dornhof,Elena Arigita
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839421765

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Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe by Frank Peter,Sarah Dornhof,Elena Arigita Pdf

Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social. Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam. From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.

Author : Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479894505

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Muslim Cool by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer Pdf

Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.

Author : Sylvia Chan-Malik
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479850600

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Being Muslim by Sylvia Chan-Malik Pdf

"Four american moslem ladies": early U.S. Muslim women in the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, 1920-1923 -- Insurgent domesticity: race and gender in representations of NOI Muslim women during the Cold War era -- Garments for one another: Islam and marriage in the lives of Betty Shabazz and Dakota Staton -- Chadors, feminists, terror: constructing a U.S. American discourse of the veil -- A third language: Muslim feminism in Smerica -- Conclusion: Soul Flower Farm

Author : Bruce David Forbes,Jeffrey H. Mahan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520965225

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Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition by Bruce David Forbes,Jeffrey H. Mahan Pdf

The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture. Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume gives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture provides a framework to help students understand and appreciate the work in diverse fields, methods, and perspectives contains an updated introduction, discussion questions, and other instructional tools

Author : Meena Sharify-Funk,William Rory Dickson,Merin Shobhana Xavier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134879991

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Contemporary Sufism by Meena Sharify-Funk,William Rory Dickson,Merin Shobhana Xavier Pdf

What is Sufism? Contemporary views vary tremendously, even among Sufis themselves. Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture brings to light the religious frameworks that shape the views of Sufism’s friends, adversaries, admirers, and detractors and, in the process, helps readers better understand the diversity of contemporary Sufism, the pressures and cultural openings to which it responds, and the many divergent opinions about contemporary Sufism’s relationship to Islam. The three main themes: piety, politics, and popular culture are explored in relation to the Islamic and Western contexts that shape them, as well as to the historical conditions that frame contemporary debates. This book is split into three parts: • Sufism and anti-Sufism in contemporary contexts; • Contemporary Sufism in the West: Poetic influences and popular manifestations; • Gendering Sufism: Tradition and transformation. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the challenges of contemporary Sufism as well as its relationship to Islam, gender, and the West. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and lecturers can explore Sufism today.

Author : Brenda Shaffer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262195294

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The Limits of Culture by Brenda Shaffer Pdf

Experts analyze the effect of cultural interests on the foreign policy of states in the Caspian region, including Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan.

Author : Neilesh Bose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317503446

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Culture and Power in South Asian Islam by Neilesh Bose Pdf

This book explores the myriad diversities of South Asian Islam from a historical perspective attuned to the lived practices of Muslims in various portions of South Asia, outside of Urdu, Persian, or Arabic language perspectives. These perspectives are, in some cases taken both from literal regions rarely noticed within discussions of South Asian Islam, such as Sri Lanka, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu. In other contributions the perspectives draw on historiographic interventions about the role of fakīrs in South Asian history, qasbahs in South Asian history, and the role of Aligarh students within the Pakistan movement. As a collection of voices aimed at stimulating debate about the range and diversity of South Asian Islam, the book probes meanings and markers of categories like "Indic," "Islamicate," and "local" or "global" Islam within the context of South Asia. Relevant to debates in the history of South Asia as well as Islamic studies, this collection will serve as a reference point for discussions about South Asian Islam as well as the nature and role of vernacularization as a cultural process. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Author : Boaz Shoshan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521894298

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Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo by Boaz Shoshan Pdf

Elite and that of the people. This book presents a stimulating discussion of a subject previously only touched upon. The author tests his theories against similar phenomena in European society and with reference to several standard authorities in anthropology and social history. Popular culture in medieval Cairo will, therefore, be of interest to students and specialists in Middle Eastern studies and also to medieval historians.