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Book Review| February 01 2022 Review: Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit, by Alisa Perkins Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit. By Alisa Perkins. New York University Press, 2020. 264 pages. $89.00 hardcover; $30.00 softcover; ebook available. Kristin M. Peterson Kristin M. Peterson Boston College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2022) 25 (3): 136–137. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.25.3.136 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kristin M. Peterson; Review: Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit, by Alisa Perkins. Nova Religio 1 February 2022; 25 (3): 136–137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.25.3.136 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search Muslim American City from Alisa Perkins focuses on how Muslims in Hamtramck, Michigan create boundaries to determine how they will live out their faith in the religiously diverse but secular-liberal context of the United States. This urban ethnography takes on a distinct religious context: a small city surrounded by Detroit with a diverse mix of White Polish Catholics; African American Muslims and Protestants; and Bangladeshi, Yemeni, and Bosnian Muslims. The city has the largest concentration of Muslim residents (40 percent) of any city in the United States. By engaging with theories around space, group identity, and boundary formation, Perkins asserts that these religious and ethnic minorities “expand the boundaries of American pluralism from its margins” (9). In particular, these Muslims challenge the secular-liberal ideals of religious pluralism and the distinction of public/private spaces. Perkins’ ten years of ethnographic work in Hamtramck along with her fluency in Arabic allow her to... You do not currently have access to this content.
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