… the German Enlightenment. Being German, Becoming Muslim provides a fresh window into
the … and tensions stemming from a growing religious phenomenon in Germany and beyond. …

… Being German, Becoming Muslim fills a knowledge gap and invites us to reflect on a burning
topic today: Islam from … themselves, from a religious perspective. Until a few decades ago, …

… This raises still other questions of what it means to be German, and, as the title of her book …
to be German and become Muslim, but also what it means to be Muslim and become German. …

… Relating conversion to the converts’ … conversion studies and so Being German, Becoming
Muslim makes an important contribution to existing literature on conversion to Islam in Europe. …

… Being German, Becoming Muslim is a slim but important and enlightening book. It offers a …
Europe—is largely absent from political discourse: the conversion of ethnic Germans to Islam. …

… Being German Becoming Muslim are important in setting the context, the core issue in her
research is indeed the conversion of Germans to Islam. … analysis of religious conversion since …

… of the Germans after converting to Islam, Özyürek documents that Islam gives the converts a
… political consequences their conversion causes in German ethnic and religious hierarchies. …

… European. Özyürek's (Citation2015) Being German, Becoming Muslim makes a welcome …
sums up—the study of Race, religion and conversion in the New Europe. In my reading, I …

… , moreover, are seeking these studies as a route to conversion. Jewish studies in …
Appeasement towards the new European Muslim populations whose voices in the different body …

… what we conceptualize as “European” and “Islamic” today. Verena … new discourse on
culture—or, for our purposes, religion—is that, because it is not based on a theory of race, this new …