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" Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Converting to Islam in France and the United States "
Juliette Galonnier
Chen, Carolyn; Oberti, Marco
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804822
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TL49658
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1975481979; 10289509
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Weygandt, Nicole Louise
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Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Converting to Islam in France and the United States\ Juliette GalonnierChen, Carolyn; Oberti, Marco
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Northwestern University
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Sociology
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2017
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892
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Committee members: Amiraux, Valerie; Fine, Gary A.; Morris, Aldon; Roy, Olivier
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-29557-3
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This dissertation is about race and religion. These two categories are crucial to how people classify others and position themselves in the world. While scholars typically understand them separately, my research proposes instead to explore instances in which they are conflated. Specifically, I track occurrences of racial reasoning in relation to the religion of Islam in Western societies. Empirically, I focus on conversion to Islam to disentangle the intricacies of race and religion. Because conversion implies crossing religious boundaries, converts shed light on the nature and content of such boundaries, and enable us to decide whether they are simply religious or also embody racial difference. The case of white converts is particularly interesting in this respect: because their conversion implies transitioning from one social status (majority) to another (minority), they offer a near-experimental case to investigate how racial categorization operates. Methodologically, I combine the meticulousness of qualitative methods with the bird’s eye view of comparatism. Using in-depth interviewing with 82 converts in France and the United States; ethnographic observations in convert associations in Paris and Chicago; and content analysis of media and historical documents, I compare the past and present experiences of French and American Muslim converts to answer the following: how and when is conversion to Islam interpreted in terms of changing one’s racial status rather than a mere change in religious orientation?
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Islamic Studies; Sociology; Ethnic studies
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Social sciences;Conversion;France;Islam;Race;Religion;United States
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Chen, Carolyn; Oberti, Marco
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SociologyNorthwestern University
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