عنوان

American Islam, the Next Generation: Young Adult Muslim Americans on Campus - Faith, Identities, Citizenship, Gender, and Pluralism

شماره

TL48519

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

American Islam, the Next Generation: Young Adult Muslim Americans on Campus - Faith, Identities, Citizenship, Gender, and Pluralism

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Daniel Azim Pschaida

نام ساير پديدآوران

Ali, Muhamad

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of California, Riverside

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

439

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Alexander, Michael; Hafez, Sherine; Leonard, Karen I.

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-18268-1

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Religious Studies

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of California, Riverside

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

This dissertation highlights context and the contours of the religious discourse of young adult Muslim Americans on university campuses in the Pacific West of the United States. It specifically focuses on the second generation children of Muslim immigrants and their leadership approaches to college Muslim Student Associations [MSA]. Based off data from eighty in-depth interviews with this population and some converts, extensive participant observation, and an online survey, this study also employs sociological analysis, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and comparative ethics to identify the ways this demographic draws on scriptural sources to articulate the significance of their faith in an American environment. Chapter One explores the social matrix in which heritage Muslims come to embrace and assert Islam as a central facet of their personal identity. In particular it identifies the importance of family upbringing, peer relationships, prejudice and stereotyping of Muslims, and multiculturalism. Chapter Two discloses many core features of a "Muslim" identity, and how it relates to their nationality "American" and various other demarcations and activities of their personal identity. Chapter Three presents MSAs' institutional practices and individual interpretations related to envisioned binaries of male and female, analyzing how they believe women and men should relate to each other on campus, in families, and in their roles in public life. It also presents their perspectives of homosexuality. Chapter Four tackles the question of how young Muslims conceptualize and deal with religious, ethnic, and racial differences. This chapter discloses dynamics of inclusivity, prejudice, trans-ethnic friendship, marriage ideals with ethnic others, and young Muslims' sometimes embracing and sometimes censuring Islamic sectarian diversity. It also divulges their perspectives on soteriology of non-Muslims. This research counters previous simplifications of young American Muslims on campus as fundamentalist, exclusive, uncritical, and militant yet also complicates reifications of them as liberal, democratic, and inclusive, presenting their diverse interpretations to their faith and detailing the particular ways and for what purposes they perform conservative, exclusive, liberal, and inclusive approaches to Islam. This dissertation reveals young adult Muslim Americans on campus creatively negotiate what they learn about their Islamic tradition with American ideals, constituting diverse expositions of their Faith.

موضوع مستند نشده

Religion; Ethnic studies; Gender studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Discourse;Identities;Muslims;Pluralism;Second generation;United states

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Quadri, Syed Mohamid Raza

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ali, Muhamad

تقسيم فرعي

Religious Studies

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of California, Riverside

شماره بازیابی

1734466379; 3731787

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y