The World of Islam: ‘good’ religion, perennialism, and public culture in the 1970s
This article draws on conversations about liberal religion to explore how international events attempt to stage ‘good Islam’ for non-Muslim publics. It does this by focusing on an understudied event from post-empire Britain: the 1976 World of Islam Festival. Here, I focus on how Muslim and non-Musli...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Culture and religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 103-121 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
World of Islam Festival (1976 : London)
/ Islam
/ Christian
/ Traditionalism
/ Liberalism
/ Islamophobia (motif)
/ Petroleum industry and trade
/ History 1960-1970
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KBF British Isles TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Islamophobia
B Islamophilia B Liberalism |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This article draws on conversations about liberal religion to explore how international events attempt to stage ‘good Islam’ for non-Muslim publics. It does this by focusing on an understudied event from post-empire Britain: the 1976 World of Islam Festival. Here, I focus on how Muslim and non-Muslim actors, ideas about universalism, perennialism and religion, and international politics organised the presentation of ‘good’ Islam in the 1970s. I attend to how liberal renderings of ‘good religion’ operate in a feedback loop with racist, xenophobic and specifically anti-Muslim sentiments in the years just before Muslim politics would take centre-stage in global imaginaries. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-5629 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2023.2185648 |
