Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jack David Eller is a cultural anthropologist and Head of Anthropology of Religion with the Global Center for Religious Research, USA. He specializes in religion and nonreligion and authored Introducing Anthropology of Religion and Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence across Culture and History.
Natalie Khazaal is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, USA, and an American Council of Learned Societies fellow. She has published on Arab atheistsâ use of pseudonyms, engagement of gender during television appearances, and embedding atheism in literary works.
Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World offers a contemporary, cross-cultural look at nonbelief and nonreligion in Islam. Providing historical, conceptual, statistical, and ethnographic data on nonbelievers from Morocco to Egypt, Turkey, and Bangladesh, it explores the unique nature and challenges of nonreligion for Muslims.
It includes 11 chapters by experts on nonbelief, nonreligion, and atheism in an array of Muslim-majority countries. The book features multiple disciplines and offers both ethnographic and statistical information on this important, growing, but neglected population. It explores the unique nature of nonreligion in Islam, illustrating that nonbelief is specific to a particular religious tradition. It also examines how ex-Muslims navigate complexities and dangers of their societiesâespecially for womenâand how nonbelief and nonreligion do not equate to atheism or the total repudiation of religion or of Muslim identity.
This book is an outstanding resource for scholars and students of nonbelief, atheism, secularism, religion, and contemporary Islam.
Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 9 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
This book offers a contemporary, cross-cultural look at non-belief and non-religion in Islam. Providing historical, conceptual, statistical, and ethnographic data on non-believers from Morocco to Egypt, Turkey, and Bangladesh, it explores the unique nature and challenges of non-religion for Muslims.
Introduction: On Being a Nonbeliever in a Muslim Society Jack David Eller 1. Patterns of Disbelief: Anti-Religious Discourse in the Heartlands of Islam, Past and Present Brian Whitaker 2. Mapping the Landscape of Non-belief, Freethinking and Secular Muslimness in the Arab World Sebastian Elsässer 3. Once a Muslim, always a Muslim? Lena Richter 4. A Critical Juncture? Atheism in Bangladesh and its (Dis)connections Mascha Schulz 5. The Secular-Religious Divide in Iran: An Analysis of GAMAANâs Online Surveys Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Ammar Maleki 6. The Cognitive Landslide: Pathways of Egyptian Atheists Anthon Jackson 7. Impious Camouflage: Egyptian Atheists Posing as Negligent Muslims Wael Al-Soukkary 8. Impoliteness and Religionormativity: Arab Atheists on Talk Shows Natalie Khazaal 9. Shoe-ing the Atheist: Emotional Responses towards Nonreligion in Egypt Karin van Nieuwkerk 10. Leaving a Home that Wonât Leave Her: A MÄtic Understanding of Ex-Muslim Womenâs Experiences Dania Ammar 11. Did Political Islam Fail? The Discursive Construction of Atheism and Nonreligion in Turkey Pierre Hecker Conclusion Natalie Khazaal Index
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jack David Eller is a cultural anthropologist and Head of Anthropology of Religion with the Global Center for Religious Research, USA. He specializes in religion and nonreligion and authored Introducing Anthropology of Religion and Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence across Culture and History.
Natalie Khazaal is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, USA, and an American Council of Learned Societies fellow. She has published on Arab atheistsâ use of pseudonyms, engagement of gender during television appearances, and embedding atheism in literary works.