Religion Out Loud (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Isaac Weiner | knygos.lt

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For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the cityOCOs anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in disputes about the integration of Muslims into this historically Polish-Catholic community. No one openly contested MuslimsOCO right to worship in their mosques, but many neighbors framed their resistance around what they regarded as the inappropriate public pronouncement of Islamic presence, an announcement that audibly intruded upon their public space. a Throughout U.S. history, complaints about religion as noise have proven useful both for restraining religious dissent and for circumscribing religionOCOs boundaries more generally. At the same time, religious individuals and groups rarely have kept quiet. They have insisted on their right to practice religion out loud, implicitly advancing alternative understandings of religion and its place in the modern world. a Ina Religion Out Loud, Isaac Weiner takes such sonic disputes seriously. Weaving the story of religious noise through multiple historical eras and diverse religious communities, he convincingly demonstrates that religious pluralism has never been solely a matter of competing values, truth claims, or moral doctrines, but of differenta stylesa of public practice, of fundamentally different ways of using body and spaceOCoand that these differences ultimately have expressed very different conceptions of religion itself. WeinerOCOs innovative work encourages scholars to pay much greater attention to the publicly contested sensory cultures of American religious life. a In thea North American Religions aseries a Isaac Weiner ais Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture in the Department of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University."