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Categories of analysis and categories of practice: a note on the study of Muslims in European countries of immigration
Ist Teil von
Ethnic and racial studies, 2013-01, Vol.36 (1), p.1-8
Ort / Verlag
Colchester: Taylor & Francis Group
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article reflects critically on the study of Muslims in European countries of immigration. 'Muslim' is both a category of analysis and an increasingly salient - and contested - category of social, political and religious practice. The traffic between categories of analysis and categories of practice makes it important for scholars to adopt a critical and self-reflexive stance towards the categories we use. The article sketches some ways in which the use of 'Muslim' as a category of practice - a category of self- and other-identification - has changed in recent decades, and it concludes with some cautionary remarks about the use of 'Muslim' as a category of analysis.