Islam: An American Religion
Nadia Marzouki
Abstract
Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense—first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith. Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has become so contentious in American politics. Focusing on the period from 2008 to 2013, she revisits the uproar over the construction of mosques, legal disputes around the prohibition of Islamic law, and the overseas promotion of religious freedom. She argues that public controversies over Islam in the Unite ... More
Keywords: American Muslims, American controversies about Islam, anti-mosque movements, foreign law/ Sharia law, international religious freedom, populism, Tea Party, secularism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231176804 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: January 2019 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231176804.001.0001 |
