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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461483603321

Titolo

Crescent over another horizon : Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA / / edited by Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona , Paulo G. Pinto, and John Tofik Karam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4773-0230-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Disciplina

305.6/9708

Soggetti

Muslims - Latin America - Ethnic identity

Muslims - Caribbean Area - Ethnic identity

Muslims - United States - Ethnic identity

Islam - Latin America

Islam - Caribbean Area

Islam - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction. Latino America in the Umma/the Umma in Latino America (John Tofik Karam, María del Mar Logroño Narbona, and Paulo G. Pinto); Part I. Reconsidering History; 1. "De los Prohibidos":  Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America (Karoline P. Cook); 2. African Rebellion and Refuge on the Edge of Empire (John Tofik Karam); 3. Ethnic and Religious Identification among Muslim East Indians in Suriname (1898-1954) (Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff); Part II. Contemporary Cartographies

4. Institutionalizing Islam in Argentina: Comparing Community and Identity Configurations (Silvia Montenegro)5. Conversion, Revivalism, and Tradition: The Religious Dynamics of Muslim Communities in Brazil (Paulo G. Pinto); 6. Guests of Islam: Conversion and the Institutionalization of Islam in Mexico (Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos); 7. Cubans Searching for a New Faith in a New Context (Luis Mesa Delmonte); 8. Muslims in Martinique (Liliane Kuczynski); 9.



Forming Islamic Religious Identity among Trinidadians in the Age of Social Networks (Halima-Sa'adia Kassim); Part III. Islam Latina/o

10. Dis-covering a Historical Consciousness: The Creation of a US Latina/o Muslim Identity (Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez)11. Mapping Muslim Communities in "Hispa nicized" South Florida (Mirsad Krijestorac); 12. Double-Edged Marginality and Agency: Latina Conversion to Islam (Yesenia King and Michael P. Perez); Conclusion; Contributors; Index