Mosques in the metropolis

• Verfasst von: Becker-Topkara, Elisabeth [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Mosques in the metropolis
• Titelzusatz: incivility, caste, and contention in Europe
• Verf.angabe: Elisabeth Becker
• Verlagsort: Chicago ; London
• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: xi, 290 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-226-78150-1
• ISBN: 978-0-226-78178-5
• ISBN: 978-0-226-78164-8
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: LB 69005
• K10plus-PPN: 1743827091

Abstract

Preface : spirit meeting stone -- The European : where doors and walls meet -- Caste, or the order of things defied -- Kaaba in papier-mâché : Şehitlik Mosque and the metropolis -- Messianic horizon : inside the East London Mosque -- Hope, interrupted : the East London Mosque and the metropolis -- Unsettled Europe : on the threshold of remembrance -- Afterword : the memory of trees.

Abstract

"Mosques in the Metropolisis a dual-site ethnographic study of two of Europe's largest mosques, one a conservative Islamist community in London and the other a progressive Muslim community in Berlin. The contrasting sites allow sociologist Elisabeth Becker to provide a complex picture of Islam in Europe at a particularly fraught time. She spent over thirty months studying the mosques through immersion and interviews and provides an analysis that goes deep into European Muslim communities. Individual Muslim voices come through loud and clear-for example, the young mother of three in London trying to reconcile her conservative religious views with her desire to leave her husband-as do the historical and structural forces at play. Ultimately Becker insists that caste is a crucial lens through which to view Islam in Europe, and through this lens she critiques what she perceives as failing European pluralism. To amplify her point, Becker brings Jewish history and twentieth-century Jewish thought into the conversation directly, drawing on the ways in which Bauman and Arendt utilized the concept of caste to describe Jewish life and marginality. What is at stake here is nothing less than the fundamental values of freedom, equality, and individual rights--ostensibly the bedrock of European identity"--