Classifying Muslims

• Verfasst von: Becker-Topkara, Elisabeth [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Rinado, Rachel [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Guhin, Jeffrey [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Classifying Muslims
• Titelzusatz: contextualizing religion and race in the United Kingdom and Germany
• Verf.angabe: Elisabeth Becker, Rachel Rinado, Jeffrey Guhin
• Ausgabe: Early view
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: 08n June 2023
• Umfang: 21 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 01.08.2023 ; Vorab online first published: 08 June 2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
• Ort Quelle: Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 1961
• Jahr Quelle: 2023
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2023), Seite 1-21
• ISSN Quelle: 1468-5906
• DOI: doi:10.1111/jssr.12865
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Germany
• Sach-SW: Muslims
• Sach-SW: race
• Sach-SW: religion
• Sach-SW: United Kingdom
• K10plus-PPN: 1854018566
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Since the late 20th century, public discourse in Muslim-minority countries has centered around the question of how to classify Muslims. In this paper, we compare the state, academic, and self-classification of Muslims in two countries: the United Kingdom and Germany. We propose that the historical experience of anti-Semitism makes religion a more salient master category to understand Muslims in Germany, while the history of both anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism largely resulting from colonial domination means that religion together with race are master categories used to understand Muslims in the United Kingdom. Through this multilayered ethnographic and historical analysis, we challenge taken-for-granted assumptions in both the political and academic milieu about what it means to be Muslim, emphasizing the importance of the interplay between sociopolitical categories and self-identifications.