The Revival of Islam in the Balkans From Identity to Religiosity
This book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public expressions of faith. An empirically rich analysis, the book provides rich cross-country evidence on the emergence of autonom
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Arolda Elbasani Olivier Roy
The Islam and Nationalism Series Series Editors: Umut Ozkirimli, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University Spyros A. Sofos, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University International Advisory Board: Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University Sondra Hale, Research Professor and Professor Emerita, Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Deniz Kandiyoti, Professor Emerita, Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Saba Mahmood, Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Jørgen S. Nielsen, Danish National Research Foundation Professor, Center for European Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen James Piscatori, Head, School of Government and International Studies, Durham University Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University Bryan S. Turner, Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director, Committee on Religion, The Graduate Center, the City University of New York; Director, Religion and Society Centre, University of Western Sydney Peter van der Veer, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen Nira Yuval-Davis, Director, Research Center on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College One of the main objectives of this series is to explore the relationship between Islam, nationalism and citizenship in its diverse expressions. The series intends to provide a space for approaches that recognize the potential of Islam to permeate and inspire national forms of identification, and systems of government as well as its capacity to inspire oppositional politics, alternative modes of belonging and the formation of counterpublics in a variety of local, national or transnational contexts. By recognizing Islam as a transnational phenomenon and situating it within transdisciplinary and innovative theoretical contexts, the series will showcase approaches that examine aspects of the formation and activation of Muslim experience, identity and social action. In order to do justice to and make better sense of contemporary Islam, the series also seeks to combine the best of current comparative, genuinely interdisciplinary research that takes on board cutting-edge work in sociology, anthropology, nationalism studies, social movement research and cultural studies as well as history and politics. As research on Islam as a form of identity is rapidly expanding and as interest both within the academia and the policy community is intensifying, we believe that there is an urgent need for coherent and innovative interventions, identifying the questions that will shape
ongoing and future research and policy, and exploring and formulating conceptual and methodological responses to current challenges. The proposed series is intended to play a
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