The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams

Serendipities in the Production of Danish Islams
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52301-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

Reihe: Muslim Minorities

In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen. The study first demonstrates that individuals’ facing the unpredictable plays a decisive role in social processes. This leads to an investigation of how serendipities are erased when narratives are erected retrospectively in the form of commodified products, autobiographical narratives, and research. Furthermore, Petersen conceptualizes non-Muslims’ theological productions of Islam – Islam without the worship of Allah, so to speak – and demonstrates how this influences Muslim productions of Islam.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petersen, Jesper

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Das Priestertum
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Fragen von Sexualität, Geschlecht und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of figures

Chapter 1: Entering the field

Chapter 2: Ethnographic methodology

Chapter 3: Muslims in Denmark

Chapter 4 Sherin Khankan

Chapter 5: The emergence of a religious demand

Chapter 6: The serendipitous spread of a story

Chapter 7: Planning the founding of Femimam

Chapter 8: The serendipitous emergence of an institution

Chapter 9: The pop-up mosque and its social media adhan

Chapter 10: The first Mariam Mosque

Chapter 11: Politicized and commodified narratives of Sherin Khankan

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jesper Petersen, PhD (2020) is a Danish historian of religion specialized in Islamic studies, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Producing Sharia in Context project at Copenhagen University.