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Finding Mecca in America

How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion

By: Mucahit Bilici

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Finding Mecca in America

How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion

By: Mucahit Bilici

The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually sinking into familiarity, Finding Mecca in America illuminates the growing relationship between Islam and American culture as Muslims find a homeland in America. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book is an up-close account of how Islam takes its American shape. In this book, Mucahit Bilici traces American Muslims’ progress from outsiders to natives and from immigrants to citizens. Drawing on the philosophies of Simmel and Heidegger, Bilici develops a novel sociological approach and offers insights into the civil rights activities of Muslim Americans, their increasing efforts at interfaith dialogue, and the recent phenomenon of Muslim ethnic comedy. Theoretically sophisticated, Finding Mecca in America is both a portrait of American Islam and a groundbreaking study of what it means to feel at home.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226922871

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Following Similar Paths

What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another

By: Samuel C. Heilman,Mucahit Bilici

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Following Similar Paths

What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another

By: Samuel C. Heilman,Mucahit Bilici

Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common—particularly in America. This book provides a braided portrait of two American groups whose strong religious attachments and powerful commitments to ritual observance are not always easy to adapt to American culture. Orthodox Jews and observant Muslims share many similarities in their efforts to be at home in America while holding on to their practices and beliefs. As Samuel Heilman and Mucahit Bilici reveal, they follow similar paths in their American experience. Heilman and Bilici immerse readers in three layers of discussion for each religious group: historical evolution, sociological transformation, and a comparative understanding of certain parallel beliefs and practices, each of which is used as a window onto the lived reality of these communities. Written by two sociologists, one a religiously observant American Jew and the other an American Muslim, Following Similar Paths offers lively insider and outsider perspectives that deepen our understanding of American diversity and what it means to be religious in a modern society.

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Univ of California Press

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0520340558

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Finding Mecca in America

How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion

By: Mucahit Bilici

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Finding Mecca in America

How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion

By: Mucahit Bilici

By describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually sinking into familiarity, this book illuminates the growing relationship between Islam and American culture as Musliims find a homeland in America.

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0226049566

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Following Similar Paths

What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another

By: Samuel C. Heilman,Mucahit Bilici

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What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another

By: Samuel C. Heilman,Mucahit Bilici

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Finding Mecca in America

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Following Similar Paths

Finding Mecca in America

Finding Mecca in America

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Following Similar Paths

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