Peaceful Families (eBook)

American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence

Juliane Hammer (Autor)

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2019
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19438-7 (ISBN)

Infos

An in-depth look at how Muslim American organizations address domestic violence within their communitiesIn Peaceful Families, Juliane Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing Muslim anti-domestic violence work in the United States. Looking at connections among ethical practices, gender norms, and religious interpretation, Hammer demonstrates how Muslim advocates mobilize a rich religious tradition in community efforts against domestic violence, and identify religion and culture as resources or roadblocks to prevent harm and to restore family peace.Drawing on her interviews with Muslim advocates, service providers, and religious leaders, Hammer paints a vivid picture of the challenges such advocacy work encounters. The insecurities of American Muslim communities facing intolerance and Islamophobia lead to additional challenges in acknowledging and confronting problems of spousal abuse, and Hammer reveals how Muslim anti-domestic violence workers combine the methods of the mainstream secular anti-domestic violence movement with Muslim perspectives and interpretations. Identifying a range of Muslim anti-domestic violence approaches, Hammer argues that at certain times and in certain situations it may be imperative to combat domestic abuse by endorsing notions of "e;protective patriarchy"e;-even though service providers may hold feminist views critical of patriarchal assumptions. Hammer links Muslim advocacy efforts to the larger domestic violence crisis in the United States, and shows how, through extensive family and community networks, advocates participate in and further debates about family, gender, and marriage in global Muslim communities.Highlighting the place of Islam as an American religion, Peaceful Families delves into the efforts made by Muslim Americans against domestic violence and the ways this refashions the society at large.

Autor

Juliane Hammer is associate professor and the Kenan Rifai Scholar of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism and Palestinians Born in Exile.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Aasiya Zubair • Accountability • activism • Advocacy • affair • African Americans • Amina Wadud • anti-racism • awareness • Chaplain • Child Abuse • Clergy • Colonialism • community leader • community organization • compassion fatigue • confidentiality • Consideration • criminal justice • domestic terrorism • Domestic violence • Domestic Violence in the United States • Exclusion • Extended family • femicide • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Feminist Movement • Funding • Gender equality • Gender Mainstreaming • Gender Role • God • Hadith • hate crime • Hijab • honor killing • hostility • humility • Immigration • Institution • Interfaith dialogue • Intimate partner violence • Islam • Islamic marital practices • Islamic Society of North America • Islamic Studies • Islam in the United States • Islamophobia • Kecia Ali • Law enforcement • Literature • marriage • Mosque • Muhammad • Muslim • Muslim Charity • Muslim world • Muzzammil Hassan • narrative • National Coalition Against Domestic Violence • Negotiation • Nonprofit Organization • Nonviolence • obstacle • Oppression • Patriarchy • Politics • Publication • Public Policy • Public sphere • Quran • Racism • Relativism • Religion • Religious Community • Religious Conversion • Religious Organization • Secularism • Sensitivity Training • Service Provider • Sexism • Sexual assault • Sexual Violence • Sharia • Sharifa Alkhateeb • skepticism • Social Justice • Society • Society of the United States • spouse • tafsir • taqwa • The Journal of Religion • Ummah • Violence • Violence Against Women • Violence Against Women Act • Violent crime • Women in Islam
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19438-6 / 0691194386
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19438-7 / 9780691194387