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Autore: | Weiner Isaac |
Titolo: | Religion Out Loud : Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism / / Isaac Weiner |
Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2013] |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina: | 203/.7 |
Soggetto topico: | Sound - Religious aspects |
Religion - Noise | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Religion |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Sounds of Power -- Part II: The Sounds of Dissent -- Part III: The Sounds of Difference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
Sommario/riassunto: | For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the city's anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in disputes about the integration of Muslims into this historically Polish-Catholic community. No one openly contested Muslims' right to worship in their mosques, but many neighbors framed their resistance around what they regarded as the inappropriate public pronouncement of Islamic presence, an announcement that audibly intruded upon their public... |
Titolo autorizzato: | Religion Out Loud |
ISBN: | 0-8147-0806-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819227503321 |
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