Muslim in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Ilyas Ba-Yunus, Kassim Kone Klappentext As a minority religion in a predominantly Christian country, America's Muslims face many difficulties - lack of understanding of their cultural traditions by the majority of their fellow citizens, threats to their civil liberties based on their beliefs and ethnicity, and challenges to retaining a Muslim identity within their community. Muslims in the United States clarifies this complex situation by explaining for a non-Muslim audience the basic teachings and practices of Islam, the history of Islam in the United States, and a discussion of how and where Muslims live in this country. The volume concludes with a discussion of the problems that Muslims have adjusting to American culture, and a description from the Muslim perspective of 9/11 and its aftermath. Muslims in the United States provides an objective overview of what it's like to live as a Muslim in the United States: ; Includes a history of Islam in America and a summary of what is known about the diversity of the Muslim population ; Examines the centrality of faith for the Muslims of the United States ; Analyzes the importance of women and the family ; Probes the troubles that Muslims have endured after 9/11 Zusammenfassung As a minority religion in a predominantly Christian country! America's Muslims face many difficulties - lack of understanding of their cultural traditions by the majority of their fellow citizens! threats to their civil liberties based on their beliefs and ethnicity! and challenges to retaining a Muslim identity within their community.

Product details

• Authors: Ilyas Ba-Yunus, Ba-Yunus Ilyas, Kassim Kone, Kone Kassim
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2006
• EAN: 9780313328251
• ISBN: 978-0-313-32825-1
• Series: American Religious Experience; The American Religious Experience
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Islam, Religion, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, RELIGION / Islam / General, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies