{"product_id":"being-german-becoming-muslim-9780691162782","title":"Being German Becoming Muslim","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts--a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European value\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The result of her research is a fascinating exploration of the dynamics of Islam in contemporary Germany, seen through the prism of its capital, Berlin. Her account provides a multifaceted profile of the many faces of Islam in one Western European country, and it offers readers a good sense of the diversity of contemporary Sunni Muslims in Germany... [A]n excellent study.\"--Ursula King, Times Higher Education \"This book provides a judicious and well thought-through consideration of such contradictions and challenges in the lives of German Muslims and offers a fascinating discussion on blurring boundaries between Germans and Muslim, and the changing realities of European identity.\"--Dr. Digdem Soyaltin, Turkish Review \"This book is remarkable.\"--Ruth Mandel, History and Anthropology \"Ozyurek's Being German, Becoming Muslim makes a welcome and distinctive contribution to--as the subtitle sums up--the study of Race, religion and conversion in the New Europe.\"--Nasar Meer, History and Anthropology \"An engaging, poignant study of how the different paths taken by converts converge in life-long, collective practices of self-pedagogy that involve learning how to negotiate German secular-Christian social norms and institutions.\"--Paul A. Silverstein, History and Anthropology \"A powerful work about the politics of inclusion and exclusion, security and threat, and recognition and fairness.\"--Joel Robbins, History and Anthropology \"A groundbreaking book that sheds much light on the lives of German converts to Islam, their ways of becoming Muslims and being German in the aftermath of conversion, their ambivalent relationships with immigrant Muslims, their strategies and struggles with respect to broadening a space of Islam, and even making it a German religion, and finally their curious relationship with the Salafis in Germany.\"--Erdem Dikici, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  Introduction Germanizing Islam and Racializing Muslims 1  Chapter 1 Giving Islam a German Face 24  Chapter 2 Establishing Distance from Immigrant Muslims 51  Chapter 3 East German Conversions to Islam after the Collapse of the Berlin Wall 69  Chapter 4 Being Muslim as a Way of Becoming German 87  Chapter 5 Salafism as the Future of European Islam? 109  Chapter 6 Conclusion 132  Notes 137  References 149  Index 163","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403808317783,"sku":"9780691162782","price":46.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/being-german-becoming-muslim-9780691162782","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}