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"I wouldn't call them Muslims!": Constructing a Respectable Islam

In English

Författare

  • Jonas Otterbeck

Summary, in English

This article addresses the understanding of Islam of nine young adult Muslims living in the Malmo and Copenhagen region. 1 Throughout the interviews with the young adults, they mark their distance from what they perceive as unacceptable forms of Islamic ideas and practices, labeling these ideas as extremist and inconsistent. They develop discursive techniques of distancing themselves from the mediated Islam of radicals and the often negative rendering of Islam that they encounter in daily life and in the media. By negotiating with the dominant discourse on what a "respectable religion" should look like, the young adults construct a religiosity that shares much of the form prescribed by mainstream society, but is different in content. The theoretical framework is drawn from the study of sociology of religion and, in particular, from Beverley Skeggs' theories on respectability (1997).

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

243-264

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Numen

Volym

62

Issue

2-3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Brill

Ämne

  • Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Nyckelord

  • Islam
  • Muslim youth
  • respectability
  • Sweden
  • Denmark

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0029-5973