Political Islam and Masculinity (eBook)

Muslim Men in Australia

Joshua M. Roose (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XVI, 271 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
9781137522306 (ISBN)

Infos

This book reveals important and timely insights into why young Australian Muslim men, often from very similar social backgrounds, pursue such dramatically different political paths in the name of Islam. This has important implications for promoting cohesion and challenging the increasing popularity of the Islamic State movement in the West.

Joshua M. Roose is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion, Politics and Society, Australian Catholic University, Australia.

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The question of Muslim identity-and, more specifically, Muslim masculinities, political loyalty, and action-has become the central pivot for the debate on the place of Islam in the West, state polices on multiculturalism, and even foreign policy towards the Middle East. Young, western-born Muslim men are central figures in these questions, yet their lives and identities remain poorly understood. Political Islam and Masculinity: Muslim Men in Australia reveals important and timely insights into why young Muslim men, often from very similar social backgrounds, are pursuing such dramatically different political paths in the name of Islam. Based on an unprecedented depth of engagement and quality of sources, this book examines the key social influences behind exceptional examples of political action by young Australian Muslim men who have extended their reach into the international realm, from the streets of Jakarta to the battlefields of Syria and Iraq.

Autor

Joshua M. Roose is Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Society at the Australian Catholic University and Visiting Scholar at the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard University Law School, USA. He is Secretary of the Australian Sociological Association and has written numerous articles on Muslims in the West, Islamic law, and society and multiculturalism.

Inhalt

Table of ContentsList of illustrationsPreface:Professor Bryan S. TurnerAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Question of Muslim Masculinities1.Political Islam and Masculinity: A New Approach2.Muslims in Australia3.The Brothahood: 'Australia's Mine Too'4.Waleed Aly: 'To live in the Realm of Ideas'5.The Benbrika Jama'ah: 'The Reward of the Mujahid'6.9/11's Children: 'Chasing Martyrdom'7.The Centrality of Hope, Belief and Upward Social TrajectoryBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Islam
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Islam
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 271 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 42624 • children • Cohesion • Islam • Muslims • State
• ISBN-13: 9781137522306 / 9781137522306