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Book Announcement: “La migrazione dei simboli. Pubblicità e religione”

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Carlo Nardella is pleased to announce his book, “La migrazione dei simboli. Pubblicità e religione” (Milano: Guerini, 2015), which explores the use of religious symbols in Italian advertising through the analysis of a large sample of print advertisements covering 50 years of Italian social history.

http://www.guerini.it/index.php/la-migrazione-dei-simboli.html

Visit the author’s homepage: http://www.carlonardella.com

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Book Announcement – Faithfully Urban: Pious Muslims in a German City

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Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce my book FAITHFULLY URBAN: PIOUS MUSLIMS IN A GERMAN CITY (2015) published by Berghahn Books.

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=KuppingerFaithfully

The book examines the lives of ordinary pious Muslims and their communities in Stuttgart, Germany. I illustrate how pious Muslims and their communities are active and engaged citizens and active participants in the urban public sphere, and have long since become integral parts of the cityscape.

Best,

Petra Kuppinger
Professor of Anthropology
President, SUNTA
Department of Sociology/Anthropology
Monmouth College

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Book Announcement: “L’épreuve de la neutralité. La laïcité française entre droits et discours”, Bruylant, 2015

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http://fr.bruylant.larciergroup.com/titres/133233_1/l-epreuve-de-la-neutralite.html

A new book on the French “laïcité.”

Cet ouvrage propose un regard sociologique et juridique sur les récentes évolutions de la laïcité en France.

 

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Book Announcement: Muslim Fashion – Contemporary Style Cultures

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Muslim Fashion

Contemporary Style Cultures

Reina Lewis

 

   “Reina Lewis discusses Muslim dress as fashion in the United Kingdom and its networks elsewhere, eschewing its reception in mainstream media as a sign of ahistorical and unmodern identity. Lewis’ previous scholarship on gendered Orientalism and academic post in fashion studies situates her in the best position to handle this delicate topic, and she admirably achieves to maintain both a critical distance and emphatic proximity to her subject. This is a must read for anyone interested in the visual and politico-economic analyses of Muslim fashion in relation to multiple fashion systems, as well as an ethnographic study of young women who live in Britain among a minority Muslim population.”—Esra Ackan, author of Architecture in Translation

 

  “Gracefully interweaving hijab and veiling into historical, political, legal, and cultural contexts, Reina Lewis delves deeply into the everyday style, fashion, and dress of young Muslim women.  Lewis captures a dynamic moment in time—transnationally and comparatively—and offers keen insights into the variations and intersectionalities of religion, ethnicity, class, gender, generation, and nation. Muslim Fashion is an extraordinary book and an exemplary model of a feminist cultural studies approach to fashion.”—Susan B. Kaiser, author of Fashion and Cultural Studies

 

Read an interview with Reina Lewis at Times Higher Education: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/interview-reina-lewis-london-college-of-fashion-university-of-the-arts-london

 

   In the shops of London’s Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers. Participating in the world of popular mainstream fashion—often thought to be the domain of the West—these young Muslim women are part of an emergent cross-faith transnational youth subculture of modest fashion. In treating hijab and other forms of modest clothing as fashion, Reina Lewis counters the overuse of images of veiled women as “evidence” in the prevalent suggestion that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western modernity. Muslim Fashion contextualizes modest wardrobe styling within Islamic and global consumer cultures, interviewing key players including designers, bloggers, shoppers, store clerks, and shop owners. Focusing on Britain, North America, and Turkey, Lewis provides insights into the ways young Muslim women use multiple fashion systems to negotiate religion, identity, and ethnicity.

 

Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and the author of Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem.

Duke University Press

September 2015 400pp 87 photographs, incl. 17 in color 9780822359340 PB £19.99 now only  = £19.99 *0.80 £15.99* when you quote CSL1215MSF when you order

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Book Announcement: Church in an Age of Global Migration – A Moving Body

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Susanna Snyder, Joshua Ralston and Agnes Brazal are delighted to announce the publication of a new volume, Church in an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body (Palgrave, 2015), that brings together contributors from all over the world to reflect on the question: How is migration changing the Church?

Migration has become a defining feature of the contemporary age. It has brought about significant changes in political, economic, social, and religious landscapes. This volume explores a question that has been little considered to date: how are churches being transformed in the face of global migration? The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, professional, and linguistic backgrounds. Their essays reveal the ways in which migrants and the phenomenon of migration expose longstanding gaps and failings within Christian communities. However, the prevalence of migration and migrants simultaneously opens up fresh possibilities for churches to grow, renew, becoming more authentic, dynamic, and diverse. Church in an Age of Global Migration presents a collage of embodied ecclesial practices, understandings, and realities that have emerged and are continuing to develop in the face of global migration. Committed to transnational and ecumenical dialogue, and to integrating practical and theoretical perspectives, this volume is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of the ways in which churches are being changed by migrants.

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Book Announcement – Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru

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Rebranding Islam

Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru

James Hoesterey

   “This work is quite simply one of the best written, theoretically well-informed, and downright interesting works in both anthropology and religious studies that I have read in the past four years. It speaks engagingly across a variety of disciplines and debates, including Islamic studies of contemporary Sufism and sociological and political science studies of Islam’s crisis of religious authority. I can think of no other work that achieves this work’s balance of readability and theoretical depth.”—Robert W. Hefner, Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University

   “Rebranding Islam is a welcome and overdue response to analyses of political Islam that focus on either violence or voting as the only two modes of political expression in the 21st century. By analyzing the vibrant styles of Islamic political communication in Indonesia, the world’s largest majority-Muslim country, Hoesterey powerfully and singularly broadens our questions. This book should challenge assumptions that undergird pernicious claims about the incompatibility of Islamic piety and democratic politics.”—Carla Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder

   Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, known affectionately by Indonesians as “Aa Gym” (elder brother Gym), rose to fame via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. In Rebranding Islam James B. Hoesterey draws on two years’ study of this charismatic leader and his message of Sufi ideas blended with Western pop psychology and management theory to examine new trends in the religious and economic desires of an aspiring middle class, the political predicaments bridging self and state, and the broader themes of religious authority, economic globalization, and the end(s) of political Islam.

   At Gymnastiar’s Islamic school, television studios, and MQ Training complex, Hoesterey observed this charismatic preacher developing a training regimen called Manajemen Qolbu into Indonesia’s leading self-help program via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. Hoesterey’s analysis explains how Gymnastiar articulated and mobilized Islamic idioms of ethics and affect as a way to offer self-help solutions for Indonesia’s moral, economic, and political problems. Hoesterey then shows how, after Aa Gym’s fall, the former celebrity guru was eclipsed by other television preachers in what is the ever-changing mosaic of Islam in Indonesia. Although Rebranding Islam tells the story of one man, it is also an anthropology of Islamic psychology.

Stanford University Press

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asi

October 2015 296pp  9780804796378 PB £14.99 now only £11.99* when you quote CSL15REIS when you order

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Book Announcement: Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity – Immigration and Belonging in North America and Western Europe

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Colleagues may be interested in this free to download e-book, recently published by Russell Sage and edited by Nancy Foner and Patrick Simon:

Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity: Immigration and Belonging in North America and Western Europe

https://www.russellsage.org/publications/fear-anxiety-and-national-identity

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Book Announcement: Shi’i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal

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Mara Leichtman’s book Shi’i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal has just been published by Indiana University Press. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_3130_3698&products_id=807558. The description is below:
Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi‘i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese “converts” from Sunni to Shi‘i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each group is cosmopolitan in its own way. Leichtman provides new insights into the everyday lives of Shi‘i Muslims in Africa and the dynamics of local and global Islam. She explores the influence of Hizbullah and Islamic reformist movements, and offers a corrective to prevailing views of Sunni-Shi‘i hostility, demonstrating that religious coexistence is possible in a context such as Senegal.

 

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Parution ouvrage “Juifs d’Algérie. Une histoire de ruptures”

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Parution de: “Juifs d’Algérie. Une histoire de ruptures” Joëlle
Allouche-Benayoun et Geneviève Dermenjian.

Le livre aborde l’histoire des Juifs d’Algérie depuis 1830 : processus
d’accession à la citoyenneté française (1830-1870), antijudaïsme et
antisémitisme prégnants, inscription sous diverses formes dans la sphère
française tout en maintenant une identité juive et berbéro-arabe, Seconde
Guerre mondiale. Avec, pour finir, des témoignages sur la dispersion des
Juifs et leur mémoire conservée de l’Algérie après 1962.

Auteurs:
Philippe Portier
Franklin Rausky
Joëlle Allouche
Geneviève Dermenjian
Denis Charbit
Valérie Assan
Philippe Danan
Sabrina Dufourmont
Danièle Iancu-Agou>
Jacob Oliel
Renée Bensoussan
Jean-Pierre Lledo
Ethan Katz
Annie Stora-Lamarre
Danièle Dahan-Feucht
Jean-Paul Durand
René-Samuel Sirat
Eliezer Ben Rafaël
Benjamin Stora

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New Book Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place

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SERIES EDITORS
Paul-François Tremlett, The Open University, UK paul-francois.tremlett@open.ac.uk
John Eade, University of Roehampton, London, UK J.Eade@roehampton.ac.uk
Katy Soar, Royal Holloway, UK katy.soar@rhul.ac.uk
Religions, spiritualities and mysticisms are deeply implicated in processes of spatial and place-making. These include political and geopolitical spaces, local and national spaces, urban spaces, global and virtual spaces, contested spaces, spaces of performance, spaces of memory and spaces of confinement.
At the leading edge of theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary innovation in the study of religion, Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place brings together and gives shape to the study of such processes and places. These places are not defined simply by the material or the physical but also by the sensual and the psychological, by the ways in which spaces are gendered, classified, stratified, moved through, seen, touched, heard, interpreted and occupied. Places are constituted through embodied practices that direct critical and analytical attention to the production of insides, outsides, bodies, landscapes, cities, sovereignties, publics and interiorities.

TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE EDITORS
  • Ritual & Place-Making (historical, ancient and/or contemporary religious practices)
  • Mobility, Power and Place/Pilgrims, Tourists and the Invention of Sacred Space (religion on the move in historical, ancient and/or contemporary contexts)
  • Religion, Space and Disruption (the study of religion at times of rapid socio-spatial and political change)
  • The Politics of Religious Space (the study of religion, space and power)
  • Religion and the City (religion in urban contexts in historical, ancient or contemporary perspectives)

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