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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 |
Pubblicazione: | Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.6/9708 |
Soggetto topico: | Muslims - Latin America - Ethnic identity |
Muslims - Caribbean Area - Ethnic identity | |
Muslims - United States - Ethnic identity | |
Islam - Latin America | |
Islam - Caribbean Area | |
Islam - United States | |
Persona (resp. second.): | PintoPaulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha |
Logroño NarbonaMaría del Mar | |
KaramJohn Tofik | |
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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as “minorities” obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis—spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols—the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in “Hispanicized” South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Crescent over another horizon |
ISBN: | 1-4773-0230-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797428403321 |
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