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Title Crescent over another horizon : Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA / edited by MarÍa del Mar Logroño Narbona, Paulo G. Pinto, and John Tofik Karam
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 344 pages)
Contents "De los prohibidos" : Muslims and Moriscos in colonial Spanish America / Karoline P. Cook -- African rebellion and refuge on the edge of empire / John Tofik Karam -- Ethnic and religious identification among Muslim East Indians in Suriname (1898/1954) / Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff -- Institutionalizing Islam in Argentina : comparing community and identity configurations / Silvia montenegro -- Conversion, revivalism, and tradition : the religious dynamics of Muslim communities in Brazil / Paulo G. Pinto -- Guests of Islam : conversion and the institutionalization of Islam in Mexico / Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos -- Cubans searching for a new faith in a new context / Luis Mesa Delmonte -- Muslims in Martinique / Liliane Kuczynski -- Forming Islamic religious identity among Trinidadians in the age of social networks / Halima-Sacadia Kassim -- Dis-covering a historical consciousness : the creation of a US Latina/o Muslim identity / Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez -- Mapping Muslim communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida / Mirsad Krijestorac -- Double-edged marginality and agency : Latina conversion to Islam / Yesenia King and Michael P. Perez
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Muslims -- Latin America -- Ethnic identity
Muslims -- Caribbean Area -- Ethnic identity
Muslims -- United States -- Ethnic identity
Islam -- Latin America
Islam -- Caribbean Area
Islam -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY / General
Islam
Muslims -- Ethnic identity
Caribbean Area
Latin America
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Logroño Narbona, María del Mar, editor.
Pinto, Paulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha, editor
Karam, John Tofik, editor
ISBN 9781477302309
1477302301
9781477302316
147730231X