RT Article
T1 Is There a Paradox of Liberation and Religion? Muslim Environmentalists, Activism, and Religious Practice
JF Journal for the academic study of religion
VO 28
IS 1
SP 42
OP 60
A1 Hancock-Child, Rosemary
LA English
PB Equinox Publ.
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1571450041
AB Social movement theorists have often posited that religion and political activism are inherently opposed--that religion cannot liberate people from situations of social or political discontent in the same manner as activism. Through a study of Muslim environmental activists in the United Kingdom and United States of America, this article directly challenges this belief--not only by charting the theoretical problems of this belief within the social movement theory corpus, but also by demonstrating that Muslim environmentalists in the US and UK are both religious and politically active simultaneously. Environmental activism is drawn into Islamic practice in such a way that activism becomes religious practice in the lives of these Muslim activists.
K1 Social aspects
K1 Activism
K1 ENVIRONMENTAL activism
K1 Environmentalism
K1 Freedom Of Religion
K1 Islam
K1 Liberation
K1 Liberty
K1 Religion
K1 Social Movement Theory
K1 United States : Social conditions
DO 10.1558/jasr.v28i1.26273