Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World
While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and social relations. Through studies of conversions across the region this book examines the challenges that co
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Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World Edited by
Nadia Marzouki and Olivier Roy
Islam and Nationalism Series Series Editors: Umut Ozkirimli, 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
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Spyros A. Sofos, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University.
The proposed series is intended to play a part in such an effort. It will do so by addressing a number of key questions that we and a large number of specialist interlocutors within the academia, the policy community, but also within Muslim organizations and networks have been grapp
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