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Islam and Popular Culture
Karin Van Nieuwkerk
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Description for Islam and Popular Culture
Paperback. Editor(s): Nieuwkerk, Karin van; LeVine, Mark; Stokes, Martin. Num Pages: 404 pages, 51 b&w photos, 1 b&w illus., 2 b&w maps, 5 b&w charts/graphs. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the Arab Spring, while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and populist attitudes toward popular culture. Not simply a westernizing or secularizing force, as some have asserted, popular culture now plays a growing role in defining what it means to be Muslim. ... Read more
Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the Arab Spring, while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and populist attitudes toward popular culture. Not simply a westernizing or secularizing force, as some have asserted, popular culture now plays a growing role in defining what it means to be Muslim. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
555g
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477309049
SKU
V9781477309049
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Ref
99-11
About Karin Van Nieuwkerk
Karin van Nieuwkerk is an anthropologist and professor of contemporary Islam in Europe and the Middle East at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her many books include Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West, Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt's Islamic Revival, and Islam and Popular Culture. Mark LeVine is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at ... Read more
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