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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"American Muslims"”.
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Making Muslims American: CAIR's Portrayal of American Muslims in Public Service Announcements
Although Muslims have resided in the United States since the early seventeenth century and have enriched the religious, cultural, and political fabric of our diverse country, the American media has historically portrayed Muslims as barbaric, irrational, and anti-modern non-citizens who reject the …
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Calculation of Zakat on Financial Assets for American Muslims: A Financial and Jurisprudential Approach
… financial assets specifically tailored for American Muslims. As one of the five pillars of Islam, Zakat is an obligatory form of charity for those who meet specific wealth criteria. However, applying traditional Zakat principles to contemporary financial instruments poses significant …
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Mental Health Help-Seeking in South Asian American Muslims: The Role of Cultural Beliefs, Attitudes, and Knowledge
… learn about group differences among South Asian American Muslims to avoid misconceptions and stereotypes. Purpose: This study examined if there are differences in (a) cultural beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge and familiarity towards formal mental health help between three South Asian Muslim …
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Making Muslim Identities: Contested Meaning, Identities, and Racialization of Islam in Saint Louis, Missouri
… addresses what it means to be a Muslim and an American and the challenges that some ethnically different American Muslims face in constructing American Islamic social identities. While practitioners of Islam profess anti-racist ideologies, the American Muslim community has a complex underlying …
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E-mams and Hybrid Muslims in 'Convergent Spaces': Intersections of Online and Offline Religions for Canadian and American Muslims at Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention
… interviews, I discover that these young Muslims find conducting Islamic research online to be convenient, however, their community needs are not fulfilled in the online Islamic world. Reviving the Islamic Spirit fulfills this need for in-person engagement by creating a suitable …
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THE EFFECTS OF RELIGIOUS RESOURCES ON MUSLIM-AMERICANS' POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND VOTING BEHAVIOR
… ideology and the political participation of Americans including minority groups such as African Americans, Latinos, and Asians. However, little is known about the effects of Islamic religiosity on American Muslims. The Pew Survey on American Muslims (2007) (Research Center's Forum on Religion …
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Countering Islamic radicalization and Al Shabaab recruitment within the ethnic Somali population of the United States: an argument for applying best practices for stemming youth gang recruitment and initiation
… attempted plots, lethal attacks, and arrests of American Muslims both at home and overseas has created the perception of a more worrisome development regarding the issue of domestic radicalization and homegrown violent extremism. The individuals involved in these developments have come from a …
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American Muslim Philanthropy in Flux: Effects of Community Building and Identity Formation
American Muslim Philanthropy in flux is concerned with several interlinked ideas. From a discussion of how American Muslim communities have emerged, to the role of identity and philanthropy in creating them, this study is a careful examination of the central role that philanthropy has played in …
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Spirituality in American Muslim Marriages: An Investigation of Marital Sanctification, Spiritual Intimacy and Emotional Intimacy
… protective factors regarding marital quality for American Muslims.
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Adult Learning in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue: A Collaborative Research Study Involving Christians, Jews, and Muslims
What do American Jews really know about Muslims? What do American Muslims really know about Jews? These questions undergird this account of how two religious adult educators--a Jew and a Muslim--came to engage in collaborative, dialogic, relational and transformational interreligious learning and …
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Marital Satisfaction and Religiosity in the African-American Muslim Community
… spirituality and marital satisfaction among Muslims who identified as African-American or Black to identify the best predictors of marital satisfaction. Religiosity was measured using modified versions of the subscales found in the Psychological Measure of Islam Religiousness (Raiya, 2008). …
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Sharia in the city: negotiation and construction of moral space
… concerned with how sharia is practiced by Muslims from a variety of backgrounds in Chicago's Devon Avenue and how they co-construct physical and moral spaces. More specifically, I am interested in how sharia as a divine, non-contingent moral and legal code is understood and analyzed in …
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A Comparison of the Islamophobic Experiences of the Female Convert and Immigrant Muslims in America
… nuances in their everyday interactions with non-Muslims. The study will illustrate that despite some notable differences, the experience of female converts and immigrants - and even the experience of hijabis and non-hijabis from both groups - with everyday racism is remarkably similar. This is …
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Universal Burdens : Stories of (Un)Freedom from the Unitarian Universalist Association, The MOVE Organization, and Taqwacore
Zen Buddhists have long given the following advice to attain liberation: “Eat when you’re hungry. Sleep when you’re tired.” In other words: “Freedom” is the “knowledge of necessity” (Hegel, Marx, and Engels). Early Islamic communities dealt with the challenge of internal warfare and tyranny and …