Shari‘a Consciousness: Law and Lived Religion among California Muslims

The Consciousness of Religion and the Consciousness of Law, With Some Implications for Dialogue

Associations between religion-related factors and cervical cancer screening among Muslims in greater chicago.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess rates of Papanicolaou (Pap) testing and associations between religion-related factors and these rates among a racially and ethnically diverse sample of American Muslim women. MATERIALS AND METHODS A community-based participatory research design was used in partnering with the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago to recruit Muslim women atten...

Dynamics of Religion and Gender amongst Young British Muslims

Considerable attention has been given to young British Asian Muslim identity in recent years. Whilst much of the literature has addressed the diasporic and transnational nature of British Muslim identity there has been a growing recognition of the need to address the national context in which this identity is formed. However, there is still a comparative lacuna of information about how religion...

Insights from the Sociology of Religion for Movements to Christ among Muslims

For a few years now, missiological. literature.has.discussed. the.possibility,.acceptability,.viability,.and.shape.of.movements. to. Christ. among. adherents. of. non-Christian. communities. without a formation of formally recognized.“Christian.churches”. among.them..A.particular.focus. of these writings is such movements in the Muslim world. Much.of.the.deliberations.on. these.“insider.movemen...

Lived religion The praxis of practical theology

Taking the case of ‘spiritual gardening’ as a starting point, this paper reflects on praxis as the object of practical theology. Praxis is understood as the domain of lived religion and focuses on what people do rather than on official institutionalized religious traditions. Praxis refers to fields of practices like care or community building and to the patterned configurations of action, exper...