Islam And Popular Culture
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Islam And Popular Culture
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Author : Karin van Nieuwkerk
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2016-04-12
Islam And Popular Culture written by Karin van Nieuwkerk and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-12 with Religion categories.
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. With well-structured chapters that explain key concepts clearly, Islam and Popular Culture addresses new trends and developments that merge popular arts and Islam. Its eighteen case studies by eminent scholars cover a wide range of topics, such as lifestyle, dress, revolutionary street theater, graffiti, popular music, poetry, television drama, visual culture, and dance throughout the Muslim world from Indonesia, Africa, and the Middle East to Europe. The first comprehensive overview of this important subject, Islam and Popular Culture offers essential new ways of understanding the diverse religious discourses and pious ethics expressed in popular art productions, the cultural politics of states and movements, and the global flows of popular culture in the Muslim world.
Performance Popular Culture And Piety In Muslim Southeast Asia
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Author : T. Daniels
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-03-20
Performance Popular Culture And Piety In Muslim Southeast Asia written by T. Daniels and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-20 with Social Science categories.
The Muslim-majority nations of Malaysia and Indonesia are known for their extraordinary arts and Islamic revival movements. This collection provides an extensive view of dance, music, television series, and film in rural, urban, and mass-mediated contexts and how pious Islamic discourses are encoded and embodied in these public cultural forms.
Islam And Popular Culture In Indonesia And Malaysia
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Author : Andrew N. Weintraub
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-04-20
Islam And Popular Culture In Indonesia And Malaysia written by Andrew N. Weintraub and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-20 with History categories.
Home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a popular culture, or popular cultures of Islam that are mass mediated, commercialized, pleasure-filled, humorous, and representative of large segments of society. During the last forty years, popular forms of Islam, targeted largely towards urbanized youth, have played a key role in the Islamisation of Indonesia and Malaysia. This book focuses on these forms and the accompanying practices of production, circulation, marketing, and consumption of Islam. Dispelling the notion that Islam is monolithic, militaristic, and primarily Middle Eastern, the book emphasizes its dynamic, contested, and performative nature in contemporary South East Asia. Written by leading scholars alongside media figures, such as Rhoma Irama and Ishadi SK, the case studies although not focused on theology per se, illuminate how Muslims (and non-Muslims) in Indonesia and Malaysia make sense of their lives within an increasingly pervasive culture of Islamic images, texts, film, songs, and narratives.
Muslims And American Popular Culture 2 Volumes
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Author : Iraj Omidvar
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2014-02-10
Muslims And American Popular Culture 2 Volumes written by Iraj Omidvar and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-10 with Social Science categories.
Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam. Unfortunately, American mass media representations of Muslims--whether in news or entertainment--are typically negative and one-dimensional. As a result, Muslims are frequently viewed negatively by those with minimal knowledge of Islam in America. This accessible two-volume work will help readers to construct an accurate framework for understanding the presence and depictions of Muslims in American society. These volumes discuss a uniquely broad array of key topics in American popular culture, including jihad and jihadis; the hejab, veil, and burka; Islamophobia; Oriental despots; Arabs; Muslims in the media; and mosque burnings. Muslims and American Popular Culture offers more than 40 chapters that serve to debunk the overwhelmingly negative associations of Islam in American popular culture and illustrate the tremendous contributions of Muslims to the United States across an extended historical period. Identifies the contributions of Muslims to American fiction, poetry, music, food, architecture, and other cultural forms to document the breadth of their contributions Highlights the ways in which Muslims have been, and continue to be, routinely depicted negatively in American literature, film, and religious discourse, and documents the potential effects that such depictions can have on individual Muslims and their communities Offers readers useful tools that allow them to apply a critical eye to the representations of Muslims in the news
Muslims And American Popular Culture
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Author : Anne R. Richards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Muslims And American Popular Culture written by Anne R. Richards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Popular Culture In Medieval Cairo
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Author : Boaz Shoshan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-16
Popular Culture In Medieval Cairo written by Boaz Shoshan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-16 with History categories.
Elite and that of the people. This book presents a stimulating discussion of a subject previously only touched upon. The author tests his theories against similar phenomena in European society and with reference to several standard authorities in anthropology and social history. Popular culture in medieval Cairo will, therefore, be of interest to students and specialists in Middle Eastern studies and also to medieval historians.
Contemporary Sufism
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Author : Meena Sharify-Funk
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-22
Contemporary Sufism written by Meena Sharify-Funk and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-22 with Religion categories.
What is Sufism? Contemporary views vary tremendously, even among Sufis themselves. Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture brings to light the religious frameworks that shape the views of Sufism’s friends, adversaries, admirers, and detractors and, in the process, helps readers better understand the diversity of contemporary Sufism, the pressures and cultural openings to which it responds, and the many divergent opinions about contemporary Sufism’s relationship to Islam. The three main themes: piety, politics, and popular culture are explored in relation to the Islamic and Western contexts that shape them, as well as to the historical conditions that frame contemporary debates. This book is split into three parts: • Sufism and anti-Sufism in contemporary contexts; • Contemporary Sufism in the West: Poetic influences and popular manifestations; • Gendering Sufism: Tradition and transformation. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the challenges of contemporary Sufism as well as its relationship to Islam, gender, and the West. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and lecturers can explore Sufism today.
Veiled Superheroes
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Author : Sophia Rose Arjana
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Veiled Superheroes written by Sophia Rose Arjana and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Social Science categories.
This groundbreaking study examines Muslim female superheroes within a matrix of Islamic theology, feminism, and contemporary political discourse. Through a close reading of texts including Ms. Marvel, Qahera, and The 99, Sophia Rose Arjana argues that these powerful and iconic characters reflect independence and agency, reflecting the diverse lives of Muslim girls and women in the world today.
Islamic Modernities In Southeast Asia
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Author : Leonie Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches
Release Date : 2017
Islamic Modernities In Southeast Asia written by Leonie Schmidt and has been published by Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Islam and art categories.
Demonstrates how new Islamic modernities are being negotiated and constructed through popular and visual culture in Indonesia.
Globalized Muslim Youth In The Asia Pacific
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Author : Kamaludeen Mohamed Mohamed Nasir
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-02-09
Globalized Muslim Youth In The Asia Pacific written by Kamaludeen Mohamed Mohamed Nasir and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with Political Science categories.
This book is a sociological study of Muslim youth culture in two global cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore and Sydney. Comparing young Muslims' participation in and reflections on various elements of popular culture, this study illuminates the range of attitudes and strategies they adopt to reconcile popular youth culture with piety.