@article{922922,
      recid = {922922},
      author = {Peucker, Mario. and Kayıkcı, Merve.},
      title = {Muslim volunteering in the West : between Islamic ethos  and citizenship /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2020},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {"The words Islam and volunteering rarely go in tandem,  especially in the West. This book proves how wrong we are.  From Australia to America, the chapters demonstrate the  scope and intricacies of Muslim diaspora volunteering. A  must read for anyone interested in the intersection of  religion and volunteering." -- Ram A. Cnaan, Professor and  Director, Program for Religion and Social Policy Research,  University of Pennsylvania, USA "This book identifies the  ways in which religious Muslimness is akin to participatory  citizenship in the secular sense. The collection is a  significant contribution to a discussion in relation to the  norms and values that Muslims derive from readings within  Islam."--Tahir Abbas, Assistant Professor at the Institute  of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The  Netherlands "This volume opens an important conversation on  the nature and multiple ethical configurations of Islamic  volunteering in the West, as it is caught between various  political, secular and security constraints. The  contributions offer important insights into how Muslim  activists navigate these different constraints, thereby  raising important questions on citizenship, solidarity and  ethical self-making." --Nadia Fadil, Associate Professor,  KU Leuven, Belgium This edited volume explores various  facets of Muslims' civic engagement in Western post-secular  societies, fundamentally challenging simplistic boundaries  between Islamic ethical conduct and liberal-democratic  norms and practice. Bringing together scholars from  sociology, anthropology, and Islamic theology, the  collection offers sound theoretical and empirical  elaborations on the complex ways in which Islamic piety,  principles and norms interact with, and shape, Muslims'  everyday practice of volunteering as a performance of  active citizenship in liberal societies. The contributions  cover diverse manifestations of Muslim volunteering in  North America, Europe and Australia, from environmentalism  to mental health volunteering, and critically examine the  national and global socio-political context within which  certain forms of Muslims' civic engagement are viewed with  skepticism and suspicion. It will be of use to students and  scholars across sociology, political science, community  studies and Islamic studies, with a focus on migrant  integration, diaspora studies, and inter-ethnic relations.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/922922},
}