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Producing Islam(s) in Canada

On Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics

edited by Amélie Barras, Jennifer A. Selby & Melanie Adrian

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2022
Category
General, General, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487505004
    Publish Date
    Jan 2022
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487527884
    Publish Date
    Jan 2022
    List Price
    $42.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487531331
    Publish Date
    Dec 2021
    List Price
    $42.95

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During the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially. In parallel, the study of Islam in the Canadian academy has grown in a number of fields since the 1970s, reflecting a diverse range of scholarship, positionalities, and politics. Yet, academic research on Muslims in Canada has not been systematically assessed.

 

In Producing Islam(s) in Canada, scholars from a wide range of disciplines come together to explore what is at stake regarding portrayals of Islam(s) and Muslims in academic scholarship. Given the centrality of representations of Canadian Muslims in current public policy and public imaginaries, which effects how all Canadians experience religious diversity, this analysis of knowledge production comes at a crucial time.

About the authors

Amélie Barras is an associate professor in the Department of Social Science at York University.

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Jennifer A. Selby is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies and an affiliate member of the Department of Gender Studies at Memorial University.

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Melanie Adrian is an associate professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University.

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