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Beyond Minority Identity Politics: Rethinking Progressive Islam through Food

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dc.contributor.authorDahlan-Taylor, Magfirahen
dc.contributor.committeecochairLuke, Timothy W.en
dc.contributor.committeecochairLavin, Chad D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDebrix, Franciosen
dc.contributor.committeememberScott, Rachel M.en
dc.contributor.departmentPlanning, Governance, and Globalizationen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:10:49Zen
dc.date.adate2012-05-10en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:10:49Zen
dc.date.issued2012-05-02en
dc.date.rdate2012-05-10en
dc.date.sdate2012-05-07en
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation, I analyze the challenges of speaking about religion, ethics, and politics as a Muslim in America beyond the language of minority identity. I investigated the different ways Muslims negotiate the demands of Islamic dietary laws in their everyday lives by collecting primary data gathered through interviews with Muslims from different localities. The answers given by the participants in this study speak to more than the particular issue of how Muslims understand and carry out the demands of Islamic dietary laws given the reality of living in a country where Muslims are a minority group. They reflect a discourse on Islamic dietary laws that is framed primarily within the language of exclusive privatized religious identity and individual consumerism. In this dissertation, I seek to propose a different discourse on Islamic dietary laws, one that is characterized by greater inclusivity and challenges the language of exclusive privatized religious identity and individual consumerism.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-05072012-225509en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05072012-225509/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/37730en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartDahlan-Taylor_M_D_2012.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMuslimen
dc.subjectModernityen
dc.subjectFood Ethicsen
dc.subjectDietary Lawen
dc.subjectReligious Identityen
dc.titleBeyond Minority Identity Politics: Rethinking Progressive Islam through Fooden
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplinePlanning, Governance, and Globalizationen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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