Following Similar Paths

What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-34055-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common—particularly in America.

This book provides a braided portrait of two American groups whose strong religious attachments and powerful commitments to ritual observance are not always easy to adapt to American culture. Orthodox Jews and observant Muslims share many similarities in their efforts to be at home in America while holding on to their practices and beliefs. As Samuel Heilman and Mucahit Bilici reveal, they follow similar paths in their American experience.

Heilman and Bilici immerse readers in three layers of discussion for each religious group: historical evolution, sociological transformation, and a comparative understanding of certain parallel beliefs and practices, each of which is used as a window onto the lived reality of these communities. Written by two sociologists, one a religiously observant American Jew and the other an American Muslim, Following Similar Paths offers lively insider and outsider perspectives that deepen our understanding of American diversity and what it means to be religious in a modern society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heilman, Samuel C

Bilici, Mucahit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents  Introduction: Judaism and Islam in America

1. Law: Halacha and Shari’a

2. Diet: Kosher and Halal

3. Identity: Yarmulke and Hijab

4. Preachers: Rabbi and Imam

5. Study: Yeshiva and Madrasa

6. Prayer: Synagogue and Mosque

7. Prejudice: Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia  Conclusion: Family Resemblances

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel Heilman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Mucahit Bilici is Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and Academic Director at Zahra Institute, Chicago.