TY  - GEN
N2  - The authors in this book criticize the essentialist approach to the concept of culture which reduces all diasporic Muslims to one category and ignores other important factors that shape the attitudes and behaviors of Muslims in the West, particularly their socio-economic status, gender, age, education, social class, and attitude toward religion and the Western lifestyle. The majority of Muslims in North America and Europe are reluctant to be reduced to 'Muslim, ' although some of them feel obliged to accept the label. In this volume, the various chapters reveal that diasporic Muslims are heterogeneous given their diverse cultures and ethnicities; they are actually divided, not united, and have different views and interpretations of Islam and various attitudes and representations of Western realities. Due to their marginalization and often low social status, some Muslims turn to religion and traditional values and practices to overlook for their socio-economic exclusion from the European or American society.
AB  - The authors in this book criticize the essentialist approach to the concept of culture which reduces all diasporic Muslims to one category and ignores other important factors that shape the attitudes and behaviors of Muslims in the West, particularly their socio-economic status, gender, age, education, social class, and attitude toward religion and the Western lifestyle. The majority of Muslims in North America and Europe are reluctant to be reduced to 'Muslim, ' although some of them feel obliged to accept the label. In this volume, the various chapters reveal that diasporic Muslims are heterogeneous given their diverse cultures and ethnicities; they are actually divided, not united, and have different views and interpretations of Islam and various attitudes and representations of Western realities. Due to their marginalization and often low social status, some Muslims turn to religion and traditional values and practices to overlook for their socio-economic exclusion from the European or American society.
T1  - New horizons of Muslim diaspora in North America and Europe /
AU  - Ennaji, Moha,
CN  - D842.42.M87
ID  - 764070
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Muslim diaspora.
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Multiculturalism.
SN  - 9781137554963
SN  - 1137554967
TI  - New horizons of Muslim diaspora in North America and Europe /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9781137554963
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9781137554963
ER  -