New PDF release: Islam and Postcolonial Discourse: Purity and Hybridity

New PDF release: Islam and Postcolonial Discourse: Purity and Hybridity

By Esra Mirze Santesso,James McClung

ISBN-10: 147246544X

ISBN-13: 9781472465443

Largely, although now not solely, as a legacy of the 2001 assault at the global exchange middle, Islamic religion has develop into synonymous in lots of corners of the media and academia with violence, which many think to be its fundamental mode of expression. The absence of a cosmopolitan acceptance of the wide variety of Islamic subjectivities inside modern tradition has created a void during which misinterpretations and hostilities thrive. Responding to the turning out to be significance of faith, in particular Islam, as a cultural signifier within the formation of a postcolonial self, this multidisciplinary assortment is prepared round contested phrases resembling secularism, Islamopolitics, lady identification, and Islamophobia. The overarching objective of the participants is to facilitate a deeper realizing of the entire diversity of reviews inside of Islam in addition to the determine of the Muslim, hence permitting a brand new set of questions about religion’s position in shaping postcolonial identity.

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