The embedding of Islam in capital markets has given way to the emergence of an urban
Muslim culture in the West resulting from an alliance of consumerism and religious practice …

In the summer of 2023, hundreds of thousands of young people converged on Lisbon to take
part in World Youth Day (WYD), a major international festival that the Catholic Church has …

The Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) is one of the five pillars of Islam and a duty which
Muslims must perform—once in a lifetime—if they are physically and financially able to do …

Drawing on original qualitative data this article analyses fluid and shifting notions of
symbolic capital within the Pakistani diaspora in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England …

In this paper we draw on a study of Muslim consumer perceptions and concerns about halal
labels and certification practices in two affluent countries: the United Kingdom (UK)(where …

Focusing on wants rather needs and taking them as an important goal of the life, is called
consumerism, which leads to buying of goods and services more than they are needed and …

This chapter identifies a new religious expression in Turkey, Muslimism, as a prominent
example of a New Religious Orthodoxy (nro). In neither rejecting nor submitting to global …

Academic research on Islam in Egypt often focuses on the entanglement of religion and
politics, mostly analysed with regard to public spaces. This article seeks to nuance the focus …

This article introduces the rise of a new religious expression, Muslimism, in Turkey at the
turn of the 21st century. I identify Muslimism as a prominent example of a new global …

Since 11 September, the image of Islam in the 'Western'media has been marked by
retrogression, terrorism and the oppression and veiling of women. 2 These negatively …