Juliane Hammer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliane Hammer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliane |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammer |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Jagged edges: Exploring Muslim efforts against sexual violence
This essay offers seven pieces with jagged edges of the author’s research on Muslim efforts against sexual violence. They are held together by a central argument: work on/against sexual violence is messy. Each piece takes a specific research moment, an organization or a theme as occasion for analysis and reflection. It explores the work of several Muslim organizations and projects – including HEART to Grow – and draws on the open-access volume Se…
Journeys towards Gender Equality in Islam, By Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Journal Article Journeys towards Gender Equality in Islam. By Ziba Mir-Hosseini Get access Journeys towards Gender Equality in Islam By Ziba Mir-Hosseini Oneworld Academic, 2022. 259 pages. $30.00 (paperback). Juliane Hammer Juliane Hammer UNC Chapel Hill [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad015, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad015 Publis…
Queer love, Abrahamic morality, and (the limits of) American Muslim marriage
This article explores recent Muslim debates on sexuality through an analysis of American Muslim conversations on LGBTQI+ inclusion and sexual norms as they took place in the ‘Muslim American public square,’ defined as a porous space of debate, analysis, and affect that is marked by intense public scrutiny and hostility towards Muslims. It analyzes religious arguments regarding queer Muslims and contextualizes them as a specific set of patriarchal…
Pedagogies of Resistance: Why Anti-Muslim Racism Matters
The following interview with a collective of scholars describes the organization, conceptualization, and thematic framework of the online syllabus #IslamophobiaisRacism. The goals of the syllabus include theorizing anti-Muslim racism and developing strategies to combat white supremacy
Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence
This book chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing Muslim anti-domestic violence work in the United States. Looking at connections among ethical practices, gender norms, and religious interpretation, the book demonstrates how Muslim advocates mobilize a rich religious tradition in community efforts against domestic violence, and identify religion and culture as resources or roa…
Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence
An in-depth look at how Muslim American organizations address domestic violence within their communitiesIn Peaceful Families, Juliane Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing Muslim anti–domestic violence work in the United States. Looking at connections among ethical practices, gender norms, and religious interpretation, Hammer demonstrates how Muslim advocates mobilize…
Speaking Qur’an: An American Scripture, by Timur R. Yuskaev
Sometimes, the title of a book is already a profound statement. This is the case with Timur Yuskaev’s Speaking Qur’an: An American Scripture; and it is also a provocation of sorts. The study of American Muslims has grown as an interdisciplinary field in the past two decades, and with it, both topics and methods have been expanded to include more than sociological or ethnographic studies of specific communities on one hand, and textual discourses …
Islam and Race in American History
American Muslims are often seen as either unassimilable immigrants or as African Americans who only “adopted” Islam as rebellion against Christian-sanctioned racist exclusion. This chapter brings into meaningful conversation these two often divided arenas of definition, agency, and political space by focusing on the categories of “Islam” and “race” and how they have been negotiated, applied, rejected, and forced by and onto various people since t…
The crisis of Islamic masculinities
Gender Matters: Normativity, Positionality, and the Politics of Islamic Studies
To Work for Change: Normativity, Feminism, and Islam
To the longstanding debate about normativity in religious studies, and more specifically in the field of Islamic studies, this contribution to the roundtable adds a new dimension: the claim that it is important to recognize a variety of normativities at work in any field of the humanities, which in turn decenters the exclusive focus on religious normativity in our field. My contribution is based on the particular dynamics of a research project on…
Marriage in American Muslim Communities
Marriage in its relation to religion, specifically Islam, is intrinsically linked to questions of sexual and gender norms. US Muslim communities,extremely diverse in their backgrounds, negotiate marriage in their discourses on a spectrum that constructs 'American' and 'Muslim' as opposing ends, while the realities of American Muslim marriage present a much more richly textured and thus complex picture. Norms and practices are co-developed in a co…
(Muslim) Women’s Bodies, Islamophobia, and American Politics
Taking Islamophobia as shorthand for a set of more complex phenomena in recent American politics this article offers an analysis of some of the ways in which Muslim women’s bodies have occupied center stage in discourses on Islam and Muslims in the United States. It focuses on representations of Muslim women as victims of their religion and the men in their communities on the one hand, and the discrimination and marginalization of the same Muslim…
Muslim Women and the Challenge of Authority: An Introduction
Activism as Embodied Tafsīr: Negotiating Women’s Authority, Leadership, and Space in North America
In this opening reflection from the 2005 documentary Me and the Mosque , director and narrator Zarqa Nawaz offers significant insight into questions associated with the presence, participation, and significance of Muslim women in North American mosques and communities. American Muslim women have begun to claim the right to advance their own gendered interpretations of Islamic foundational texts. The ability of these new interpretations to build i…
American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer
Following the events of September 11, 2001, American Muslims found themselves under unprecedented scrutiny. Muslim communities in the United States suffered from negative representations of their religion, but they also experienced increased interest in aspects of their faith and cultures. They seized the opportunity to shape the intellectual contribution of American Muslims to contemporary Muslim thought as never before. Muslim women in particul…
Gender Justice in a Prayer: American Muslim Women’sExegesis, Authority, and Leadership
The 2005 woman-led Friday prayer in New York City generated broad media attention and significant levels of intra-Muslim debates about women’s inclusion in mosques, gender roles, and textual interpretation. This essay examines the prayer event within the larger context of American Muslim women’s contributions to reinterpretations of the Qur’an and their negotiations of religious authority, leadership roles, and mosque spaces in a North American c…
Muslims and media: Perceptions, participation, and change
Performing gender justice: The 2005 woman-led prayer in New York
Identity, Authority, and Activism: American Muslim Women Approach the Qur’ān
The Soul of Islam: Writing and Publishing as Engaged Sufism
Writing and publishing imply purpose and intentionality. This study analyzes writings of contemporary Sufi authors in the West and demonstrates that such writings constitute engaged Sufism in several distinct ways: The authors share Sufi knowledge with the world they live in, particularly the Western world they come from or have settled in. Sufism is presented as an alternative to spiritually impoverished and materialistic Western modernity and a…
Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland
The Palestinian diaspora: Formation of identities and politics of homeland
1. Between Nationalism and Globalism 2. Catastrophe and Beyond 3. Palestinians in the World 4. Stateless, Rootless, Homeless: Meanings of Homeland in Exile 5. Resistance and Return: The Politics of Homeland 6. Right of Return: The Refugees and the Collapse of the Peace Process 7. New Homes and Identities in Motion 8. Coming Home? 9. Nationalism Through Transnationalism
Prayer, Hij # b and the Intif # da: The influence of the Islamic movement on Palestinian women
As Islamic movements are often perceived as only political movements, their effects on society are often overlooked. Based on empirical evidence, this article attempts to show the nature of the influence the Islamist movement in Palestine had on Palestinian women in particular. It formulates such questions as how do the Islamists view the role of women in society according to their political programs and how did Palestinian women respond to these…
Muslim Women and the Challenge of Authority: An Introduction
Muslims and media: Perceptions, participation, and change
Identity, Authority, and Activism: American Muslim Women Approach the Qur’ān
Pedagogies of Resistance: Why Anti-Muslim Racism Matters
The following interview with a collective of scholars describes the organization, conceptualization, and thematic framework of the online syllabus #IslamophobiaisRacism. The goals of the syllabus include theorizing anti-Muslim racism and developing strategies to combat white supremacy
Performing gender justice: The 2005 woman-led prayer in New York
Jagged edges: Exploring Muslim efforts against sexual violence
This essay offers seven pieces with jagged edges of the author’s research on Muslim efforts against sexual violence. They are held together by a central argument: work on/against sexual violence is messy. Each piece takes a specific research moment, an organization or a theme as occasion for analysis and reflection. It explores the work of several Muslim organizations and projects – including HEART to Grow – and draws on the open-access volume Se…
To Work for Change: Normativity, Feminism, and Islam
To the longstanding debate about normativity in religious studies, and more specifically in the field of Islamic studies, this contribution to the roundtable adds a new dimension: the claim that it is important to recognize a variety of normativities at work in any field of the humanities, which in turn decenters the exclusive focus on religious normativity in our field. My contribution is based on the particular dynamics of a research project on…
Marriage in American Muslim Communities
Marriage in its relation to religion, specifically Islam, is intrinsically linked to questions of sexual and gender norms. US Muslim communities,extremely diverse in their backgrounds, negotiate marriage in their discourses on a spectrum that constructs 'American' and 'Muslim' as opposing ends, while the realities of American Muslim marriage present a much more richly textured and thus complex picture. Norms and practices are co-developed in a co…
Prayer, Hij # b and the Intif # da: The influence of the Islamic movement on Palestinian women
As Islamic movements are often perceived as only political movements, their effects on society are often overlooked. Based on empirical evidence, this article attempts to show the nature of the influence the Islamist movement in Palestine had on Palestinian women in particular. It formulates such questions as how do the Islamists view the role of women in society according to their political programs and how did Palestinian women respond to these…
Prayer, Hij # b and the Intif # da: The influence of the Islamic movement on Palestinian women
As Islamic movements are often perceived as only political movements, their effects on society are often overlooked. Based on empirical evidence, this article attempts to show the nature of the influence the Islamist movement in Palestine had on Palestinian women in particular. It formulates such questions as how do the Islamists view the role of women in society according to their political programs and how did Palestinian women respond to these…
The Palestinian diaspora: Formation of identities and politics of homeland
1. Between Nationalism and Globalism 2. Catastrophe and Beyond 3. Palestinians in the World 4. Stateless, Rootless, Homeless: Meanings of Homeland in Exile 5. Resistance and Return: The Politics of Homeland 6. Right of Return: The Refugees and the Collapse of the Peace Process 7. New Homes and Identities in Motion 8. Coming Home? 9. Nationalism Through Transnationalism
Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland
The Soul of Islam: Writing and Publishing as Engaged Sufism
Writing and publishing imply purpose and intentionality. This study analyzes writings of contemporary Sufi authors in the West and demonstrates that such writings constitute engaged Sufism in several distinct ways: The authors share Sufi knowledge with the world they live in, particularly the Western world they come from or have settled in. Sufism is presented as an alternative to spiritually impoverished and materialistic Western modernity and a…
Identity, Authority, and Activism: American Muslim Women Approach the Qur’ān
Muslims and media: Perceptions, participation, and change
Performing gender justice: The 2005 woman-led prayer in New York
Gender Justice in a Prayer: American Muslim Women’sExegesis, Authority, and Leadership
The 2005 woman-led Friday prayer in New York City generated broad media attention and significant levels of intra-Muslim debates about women’s inclusion in mosques, gender roles, and textual interpretation. This essay examines the prayer event within the larger context of American Muslim women’s contributions to reinterpretations of the Qur’an and their negotiations of religious authority, leadership roles, and mosque spaces in a North American c…
Activism as Embodied Tafsīr: Negotiating Women’s Authority, Leadership, and Space in North America
In this opening reflection from the 2005 documentary Me and the Mosque , director and narrator Zarqa Nawaz offers significant insight into questions associated with the presence, participation, and significance of Muslim women in North American mosques and communities. American Muslim women have begun to claim the right to advance their own gendered interpretations of Islamic foundational texts. The ability of these new interpretations to build i…
American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer
Following the events of September 11, 2001, American Muslims found themselves under unprecedented scrutiny. Muslim communities in the United States suffered from negative representations of their religion, but they also experienced increased interest in aspects of their faith and cultures. They seized the opportunity to shape the intellectual contribution of American Muslims to contemporary Muslim thought as never before. Muslim women in particul…
(Muslim) Women’s Bodies, Islamophobia, and American Politics
Taking Islamophobia as shorthand for a set of more complex phenomena in recent American politics this article offers an analysis of some of the ways in which Muslim women’s bodies have occupied center stage in discourses on Islam and Muslims in the United States. It focuses on representations of Muslim women as victims of their religion and the men in their communities on the one hand, and the discrimination and marginalization of the same Muslim…
Muslim Women and the Challenge of Authority: An Introduction
Marriage in American Muslim Communities
Marriage in its relation to religion, specifically Islam, is intrinsically linked to questions of sexual and gender norms. US Muslim communities,extremely diverse in their backgrounds, negotiate marriage in their discourses on a spectrum that constructs 'American' and 'Muslim' as opposing ends, while the realities of American Muslim marriage present a much more richly textured and thus complex picture. Norms and practices are co-developed in a co…
The crisis of Islamic masculinities
Gender Matters: Normativity, Positionality, and the Politics of Islamic Studies
To Work for Change: Normativity, Feminism, and Islam
To the longstanding debate about normativity in religious studies, and more specifically in the field of Islamic studies, this contribution to the roundtable adds a new dimension: the claim that it is important to recognize a variety of normativities at work in any field of the humanities, which in turn decenters the exclusive focus on religious normativity in our field. My contribution is based on the particular dynamics of a research project on…
Islam and Race in American History
American Muslims are often seen as either unassimilable immigrants or as African Americans who only “adopted” Islam as rebellion against Christian-sanctioned racist exclusion. This chapter brings into meaningful conversation these two often divided arenas of definition, agency, and political space by focusing on the categories of “Islam” and “race” and how they have been negotiated, applied, rejected, and forced by and onto various people since t…
Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence
This book chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing Muslim anti-domestic violence work in the United States. Looking at connections among ethical practices, gender norms, and religious interpretation, the book demonstrates how Muslim advocates mobilize a rich religious tradition in community efforts against domestic violence, and identify religion and culture as resources or roa…
Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence
An in-depth look at how Muslim American organizations address domestic violence within their communitiesIn Peaceful Families, Juliane Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing Muslim anti–domestic violence work in the United States. Looking at connections among ethical practices, gender norms, and religious interpretation, Hammer demonstrates how Muslim advocates mobilize…
Speaking Qur’an: An American Scripture, by Timur R. Yuskaev
Sometimes, the title of a book is already a profound statement. This is the case with Timur Yuskaev’s Speaking Qur’an: An American Scripture; and it is also a provocation of sorts. The study of American Muslims has grown as an interdisciplinary field in the past two decades, and with it, both topics and methods have been expanded to include more than sociological or ethnographic studies of specific communities on one hand, and textual discourses …
Pedagogies of Resistance: Why Anti-Muslim Racism Matters
The following interview with a collective of scholars describes the organization, conceptualization, and thematic framework of the online syllabus #IslamophobiaisRacism. The goals of the syllabus include theorizing anti-Muslim racism and developing strategies to combat white supremacy
Queer love, Abrahamic morality, and (the limits of) American Muslim marriage
This article explores recent Muslim debates on sexuality through an analysis of American Muslim conversations on LGBTQI+ inclusion and sexual norms as they took place in the ‘Muslim American public square,’ defined as a porous space of debate, analysis, and affect that is marked by intense public scrutiny and hostility towards Muslims. It analyzes religious arguments regarding queer Muslims and contextualizes them as a specific set of patriarchal…
Journeys towards Gender Equality in Islam, By Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Journal Article Journeys towards Gender Equality in Islam. By Ziba Mir-Hosseini Get access Journeys towards Gender Equality in Islam By Ziba Mir-Hosseini Oneworld Academic, 2022. 259 pages. $30.00 (paperback). Juliane Hammer Juliane Hammer UNC Chapel Hill [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad015, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad015 Publis…
Jagged edges: Exploring Muslim efforts against sexual violence
This essay offers seven pieces with jagged edges of the author’s research on Muslim efforts against sexual violence. They are held together by a central argument: work on/against sexual violence is messy. Each piece takes a specific research moment, an organization or a theme as occasion for analysis and reflection. It explores the work of several Muslim organizations and projects – including HEART to Grow – and draws on the open-access volume Se…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Islam (15 works) · Islamic Studies and History (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Religious studies (9 works) · Theology (9 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (8 works)