{"product_id":"zoning-faith-how-city-politics-shape-muslim-communities-in-chicago-9781479834709","title":"Zoning Faith: How City Politics Shape Muslim Communities in Chicago","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intriguing look at how the city's built environment influences the shape of Muslim communities in Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eZoning Faith\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rare in-depth look at three distinct Muslim communities in Chicago, one Shia Muslim, one Sunni, and one Black Muslim community. The volume explores how these communities navigate their social and political environments, and how their experiences in urban settings help to explain the emergence of new Islamic organizations, practices, and theologies in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eZoning Faith\u003c\/i\u003e provides the first comprehensive spatial examination of Muslims' experiences in global cities. Although cities play a crucial role in the enactment of faith, they are often treated as places Muslims happen to live, or as places that are transformed as many Muslims come to inhabit them. Little attention has been paid to the ways in which cities may transform faith groups in meaningful ways, from zoning regulations and debates about where a mosque can be situated to how a building's structure can influence prayer and communal life. This book pays careful attention to the intersections of urban space and religion, approaching \"built spaces\" as profoundly political and particularly illuminating of the experiences of minority faiths. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a multi-year and multi-site ethnography, the volume provides a previously unobtainable, in-depth look at how Muslim communities in Chicago defy the expectations of conventional places of worship. Crossing the boundaries of urban studies, theological studies, architecture, and public policy, \u003ci\u003eZoning Faith\u003c\/i\u003e offers new insights into how Islam is vernacularized and grounded in the US in many different ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSultan Tepe \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Sacred and Secular: Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey\u003c\/i\u003e, the co-editor chief of \u003ci\u003ePolitical and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, and recipient of several awards, including the \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding National Title and \u003ci\u003eWeber Best Paper\u003c\/i\u003e in Religion and Politics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160364216594,"sku":"9781479834709","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9f0f557b-4536-4a66-90ff-5019153506bd.jpg?v=1775055654","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zoning-faith-how-city-politics-shape-muslim-communities-in-chicago-9781479834709","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}