Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway
Biographical note
Christine M. Jacobsen, Ph.D. (2006) in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen, is specialized in migration, gender and religious studies, and has published on Islam and Muslims in Norway, including Tilhørighetens mange former. Unge muslimer i Norge (UniPax, 2002). She is the Research Leader of IMER Bergen and a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
Readership
All those interested in Islam and Muslims in Europe, contemporary religious and secular formations, identity politics, gender, and youth culture. Students and researchers in anthropology, migration, cultural and religious studies.
Reviews
[…] Jacobsen’s findings are important and topical. […] The diversity of the decisions made by the young Muslims is one of the most important messages of this study. Annotation © Book News Inc., Portland, OR www.booknews.com, April 2011.
"...a well-researched and theoretically ambitious study of Norway's religious Muslim minority."
Heiko Henkel in Social Anthropology 20.3 (2012), 346-347.
"...a well-researched and theoretically ambitious study of Norway's religious Muslim minority."
Heiko Henkel in Social Anthropology 20.3 (2012), 346-347.
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