RT Article
T1 Career Trajectories and (In)Formalization among Muslim Performing Artists in the UK and the U.S.: Accommodationism or Fundamentalism?
JF The journal of religion & society
VO 19
A1 Tilborgh, Yolanda van
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1804302244
AB In the present era of heated debates on free expressions involving religious sensibilities, Muslim artists form a sociologically interesting group. Comparing the UK and the U.S., based on specific case studies of Black convert Muslim artists, the author found that Sufi- and Salafi-oriented performers display different dynamics in their career developments characterized by the intent to find congruity between their artistic aspiration and Islamic belief. Drawing from process-oriented sociological perspectives, the phases of formalization, informalization, and intensified formalization are theorized as constituting trajectories by which Muslim performing artists grapple with the relationship between art and religion. They reflect varying ideological orientations and influences regarding the (dis)embedment of Islam in culture.
K1 British Salafism
K1 Field of Muslim artists
K1 Islamic conversion
K1 North American Sufism
K1 Process sociology
K1 Race-ethnicity