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The implications of religious identity for American Muslims

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TLpq876605050

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Title Proper

The implications of religious identity for American Muslims

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Besheer Mohamed

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

O. McRoberts

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The University of Chicago

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

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191-n/a

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

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The University of Chicago

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2011

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Though common sense and political rhetoric suggest that identity claims play an important role in determining action, psychology and sociology research both suggest that beliefs do not have a direct impact on action. This dissertation explores the impact of the religious identity of American Muslims on issues of broad societal concern. Rather than studying identity as an abstract system of beliefs, I consider both individual measures of religious belief orthodoxy and the influence of group commitment within the distinctive social context of self-identified Muslims living in the Unites States. The dissertation draws on the Pew Center's 2007 survey of American Muslims, as well as 23 in-depth interviews to create a multi-dimensional model of Muslim identity. The dissertation finds that, in isolation, religious belief does have little impact on social attitudes; however, group commitment and social context work to link American Muslim identity to distinctive attitudes on issues as diverse as terrorism and recycling. This finding suggests that a focus on the commonalities between religious identity and other identity claims can be beneficial both to the sociological study of religion and to sociology more generally.

Identity

Islam

Islam in America

Philosophy, religion and theology

Social attitudes

Social sciences

Besheer Mohamed

O. McRoberts

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[Thesis]

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