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Informationen zum Autor Kambiz GhaneaBassiri is Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles and has served on the editorial board of The Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States and the Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. Klappentext Traces the history of Muslims in the US and their waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries. Zusammenfassung This fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries. It tells the often deeply moving stories of individual Muslims! showing how their experiences have been integral to the evolution of American Muslim institutions and practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Islam in the 'New World': the historical setting; 2. Islamic beliefs and practice in colonial and antebellum America; 3. Conflating race, religion and progress: social change, national identity, and Islam in the post-Civil War era; 4. Race, ethnicity, religion and citizenship: Muslim immigration at the turn of the twentieth century; 5. Rooting Islam in America: community and institution building in the interwar period; 6. Islam and American civil religion in the aftermath of World War II; 7. A new religious America and post-colonial Muslim world: American Muslim institution building and activism, 1960s-80s; 8. Between experience and politics: American Muslims and the 'new world order', 1989-2008; Epilogue.
