Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media

by Rosemary Pennington

Book Overview

In the West, Islam and Muslim life have been imagined as existing in an opposing state to popular culture--a frozen faith unable to engage with the dynamic way popular culture shifts over time, its followers reduced to tropes of terrorism and enemies of the state.

Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media traces narratives found in contemporary American comic books, scripted and reality television, fashion magazines,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253069378
• ISBN13: 9780253069375
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"