Lived Islam: religious identity with ‘non-organized’ Muslim minorities

Local, National and Global Islam: Religious Guidance and European Muslim Public Opinion on Political Radicalism and Social Conservatism

“…Second, it injects muchneeded empirical evidence into the highly charged political and academic debate on the political status and attitudes of European Muslims by adding a large-n, cross-country comparison to the predominantly qualitative, small-n or single-case-study approaches dominating research over the last two decades. Third, this paper's focus on Muslim public opinion responds to Jeldtoft's (2011) and Jones' et al (2014) criticism of the bias toward 'institutionalized Islam' in the academic study of European Muslims. Moving beyond the examination of the interaction between European governments and groups claiming to represent European Muslims, this analysis takes into account the individualization of Muslim religious discourses, practices and identities (Kaya 2010) which has been made possible via the increasing availability of an ever-expanding range of religious guidance in the context of a democratizing transnational religious sphere (Mandaville 2009).…”

Når religion i skolen er "uproblematisk": Moderat sekularisme, civiliseringsidealer og "afslappede muslimer"

“…Dette kan meget vel vaere en selvdifferentiering som mange muslimske børn og voksne selv laver, da mange selv-definerede muslimer har en sekularistisk indstilling til religion eller af anden grund opfatter religion som et privat anliggende (Jeldtoft 2011). Men det viser os ikke desto mindre, hvordan man kan vaere religiøs i skolen.…”

Fluid Solidarity among Religious Groups in Situations of Conflict in Dagestan: A Case Study of Confrontation around the Figure of the Village Imam

“…The methods employed in the sociology of religion, studying religious life in terms of the sociology of organizations, are not relevant for the study of institutionally "unorganized" Muslim communities. See Jeldtoft and Nielsen 2011;Jeldtoft 2011;Kühle 2011. 16.…”