Views on political Islam among Australian converts to Islam: findings of a national survey
Over the past few decades, interest in and conversion to Islam among non-Muslims in the West has been on the rise. There is a view in the scholarly literature that Western converts to Islam are overrepresented in regard to politicized interpretations of the religion, commonly referred to as politica...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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| Στο/Στη: |
Politics and religion
Έτος: 2023, Τόμος: 16, Τεύχος: 3, Σελίδες: 492-515 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Interreligious Relations
B Shariah B Political Islam B Democracy B Jihad B Religious Conversion B Caliphate |
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| Σύνοψη: | Over the past few decades, interest in and conversion to Islam among non-Muslims in the West has been on the rise. There is a view in the scholarly literature that Western converts to Islam are overrepresented in regard to politicized interpretations of the religion, commonly referred to as political Islam or Islamism, and even militancy or jihadism. This article presents the findings of a national survey of Muslim Australians. It focuses on views amongst Australian converts to Islam concerning political Islam, including views and understandings of such concepts as the caliphate, shariah, and jihad, and the relationship between Islam and politics, democracy, and conflict. The findings suggest that in the Australian context, converts to Islam are not more likely, and in some cases less likely, than the broader born-Muslim population, to understand and interpret Islam in accordance with political Islamist ideology. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-0491 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Politics and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1755048323000135 |