RT Article
T1 Views on political Islam among Australian converts to Islam: findings of a national survey
JF Politics and religion
VO 16
IS 3
SP 492
OP 515
A1 Mitchell, Paul
A1 Rane, Halim 1976-
A1 Duderija, Adis 1977-
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1854055712
AB 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.
K1 Religious Conversion
K1 Caliphate
K1 Democracy
K1 Interreligious Relations
K1 Jihad
K1 Political Islam
K1 Shariah
DO 10.1017/S1755048323000135