American Examples Volume 2: New Conversations About Religion, Volume Two - Softcover

Samah Choudhury (editor); Prea Persaud (editor); Michael J. Altman (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817360654 ISBN 13: 9780817360658

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, 2022

Synopsis

The second volume of American Examples presents nine new essays with fresh multidisciplinary approaches to understanding the place of faith, broadly understood, in America, broadly understood

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About the Author

Samah Choudhury is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College. Her research surrounds American Muslim humor as it relates to formations of race and racialization, Muslim masculinities, and secularism in the United States. She holds a doctorate in Islamic studies from UNC Chapel Hill.

Prea Persaud is lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, where she teaches classes on Hinduism, religion in the Americas (inclusive of the Caribbean), and issues concerning race, identity, and postcolonialism.

Michael J. Altman is director of the American Examples working group and associate professor of religious studies at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: AmericanRepresentations of India, 1721-1893.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817360654
• ISBN 13: 9780817360658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298