Sökning: "American Muslims"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden American Muslims.

  1. 1. Universal Burdens : Stories of (Un)Freedom from the Unitarian Universalist Association, The MOVE Organization, and Taqwacore

    Författare :Anthony Fiscella; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Unitarian Universalist Association; Decolonialism; Inclusivity; Democracy; Human rights; Un Freedom; Unfreedom; Freedom; Liberation; Liberty; UUA; MOVE Organization; Philadelphia; Virginia; Taqwacore; Critical Religion Theory; History of religion; Islam; American Muslims; Anarchism; Anarchists; Punk rock; Hardcore; Social Movements; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Jiddu Krishnamurti; Zen; Imperialism; Cognitive dissonance; Racism; Indigenous peoples; First Nations; Colonialism; Critical pedagogy; Critical race studies;

    Sammanfattning : Zen Buddhists have long given the following advice to attain liberation: “Eat when you’re hungry. Sleep when you’re tired.” In other words: “Freedom” is the “knowledge of necessity” (Hegel, Marx, and Engels). LÄS MER

  3. 2. Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam

    Författare :Anna Månsson; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnology; Cultural anthropology; person-centered ethnography; psychological anthropology; Muslims in the U.S.; Muslims in Sweden; Islam in the West; conversion narrative; conversion to Islam; Muslim identity; identity-making; cognitive models; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : "Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam" is an ethnographic study analyzing the identity-making of female Muslim converts. It is based on eighteen in-depth interviews with six women in Sweden and three women in the U.S. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Gracious Traditions : Contemporary Transnational Egyptian Post-Tariqa Sufism

    Författare :Frederic Brusi; Susanne Olsson; Marja Liisa Keinänen; Jonas Otterbeck; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sufism; Post-tariqa; Islam; Egypt; Saints; Religion in migration; Invisible Muslims; Individualization of religion; barzakh; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : An overarching aim of this study is to contribute to the developing body of studies of non-organized and thereby “invisible” Muslims in the West. The thesis probes into the question of what Sufism means in the individual lives of seven Muslims in the US and Sweden who share a relatively privileged Egyptian socio-economic background. LÄS MER

  5. 4. American Medina: A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Communities in Chicago

    Författare :Garbi Schmidt; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Non-Christian religions; institution; authority; globalization; migration; objectification; Chicago; Íslam; United States; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : Sunni Muslims have immigrated to and lived in Chicago for more than a hundred years. In her book Schmidt seeks, on basis of two periods of extended fieldwork, to provide a description of some activist strata of these religious communities. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Islam på svenska : tidskriften Salaam och islams globalisering

    Författare :Jonas Otterbeck; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Non-Christian religions; History of Religions; Islamology; Islam in Europe; Islam in Sweden; Muslims in Sweden; Salaam; globalization; privitization; genealogy; Rabita.; discourse; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on written Islamic discourses in Swedish, especially the journal Salaam - Islamisk tidskrift. The journal first appeared in 1986 and is a part of the activities of Islamiska Informationsföreningen. From the beginning, Salaam has been edited by female converts to Islam in their twenties or early thirties. LÄS MER