Towards a Typology of Imams of the West
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Towards a Typology of Imams of the West. / Vinding, Niels Valdemar.
Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018. p. 231-254.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Towards a Typology of Imams of the West
AU - Vinding, Niels Valdemar
N1 - Niels Valdemar Vinding is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, with a specifijic focus on Islam in Europe and European Muslim institutions. His current research, ‘Imams of the West’, is funded from 2014 to 2017 by the Carlsberg Research Foundation. His Ph.D. (2013) was on Muslim Positions in the Religio-Organisational Fields of Denmark, Germany and England.
PY - 2018/5/15
Y1 - 2018/5/15
N2 - To understand the relevant and signifijicant diffferences between imams of the West, this chapter suggests a typology of imams according to variations of institutional authority – that is, the signifijicant dimensions of institutionally embedded authority available in the West – and what has been called epistemic authority, which emphasizes the primacy of knowledge-based authority in Islam. Focussing specifijically on Islamic authority and providing relevant examples of imams that embody authority, the typology expresses the cross tabulation between the diverse institutional frameworks in the West and Islamic knowledge personified.This relationship between institutional authority and epistemic authority, its explanatory power and the actual imams, who exemplify them, is a telling indicator of the directions and future challenges of Islam in Europe.
AB - To understand the relevant and signifijicant diffferences between imams of the West, this chapter suggests a typology of imams according to variations of institutional authority – that is, the signifijicant dimensions of institutionally embedded authority available in the West – and what has been called epistemic authority, which emphasizes the primacy of knowledge-based authority in Islam. Focussing specifijically on Islamic authority and providing relevant examples of imams that embody authority, the typology expresses the cross tabulation between the diverse institutional frameworks in the West and Islamic knowledge personified.This relationship between institutional authority and epistemic authority, its explanatory power and the actual imams, who exemplify them, is a telling indicator of the directions and future challenges of Islam in Europe.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Imams in the United KingdomKingdom, Germany, and Austria,
KW - imam
KW - Typology
KW - Chaplaincy
KW - Islam
KW - Muslims
KW - religious authority
UR - http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462983830-imams-in-western-europe.html
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9789462983830
SP - 231
EP - 254
BT - Imams in Western Europe
PB - Amsterdam University Press
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
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