Hybrid Patterns of Piety and Visibility of Religion for Being Muslim in a Globalized World

Abstract

Globalization, a social phenomenon originating from the West, has been met with different cultural reactions in non-Western societies because of its homogenizing effect. They have responded to this massive social change according to their own cultural codes which led to the emergence of alternative modernities in the face of globalization. Muslim countries are some of these societies which give reactions to globalization and try to create alternative modernities and make a global impact in turn. In this study, based on some anthropological studies, the authors give information and discuss globalization's influence on Muslim communities and identities. After such social changes, people's understanding of how to be a good and proper Muslim and piety's importance in being a good Muslim will be analyzed. The importance of piety in the social construction of Muslim identity and its relation to the visibility of religion in different parts of the Muslim World will also be discussed.