Jonas Otterbeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 78249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonas Otterbeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonas |
| FAMILY NAME | Otterbeck |
| SIGNATURE | OTTERBECK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0862-3582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Den förvirrade svenska etikdiskussionen
Utgångspunkten för denna essä är de hätska diskussionerna kring Sameh Egyptsons avhandling i missionsvetenskap framlagd den 10 februari 2023 vid Lunds universitet, särskilt meningsutbytena kring de forskningsetiska frågorna. Särskilt ifrågasattevissa hanteringen av känsliga personuppgifter. Under projektets gång hade ny lagstiftning introducerats, men projektet etikprövades aldrig. Vissa kritiker valde att anmäla forskningen. En av dessa anmälnin…
Grace & Poise: A Muslim ballet school in the UK
Grace & Poise Academy is a Muslim ballet school with a unique syllabuswhere students dance to poetry, not music, expectations of female modestyamong parents, teachers and students are met and attention is paid to Islamic theologyand morals. While cultivating Islamic adab (etiquette), akhlaq (ethics) andIslamic pedagogies, the academy is also inspired by classical ballet training andalternative holistic educational traditions. The result is both t…
British Muslim women in the cultural and creative industries , by Saskia Warren, and Muslims making British media: Popular culture, performance and public religion , by Carl Morris
For the Love of the Beloved: Peter Murphy’s Creative Use of Sufi tropes
Rock artist Peter Murphy (Bauhaus, Dali’s Car, solo) has drawn from Sufism in his lyrics since 1986. Throughout his career Murphy has been open about this but no one has analysed his lyrics before. This article illustrates and discusses how tropes from Sufi genres, such as poetry, hymns and tales, are reused and reformulated in the form of post-punk rock lyrics. Sufi tropes, combined with Murphy’s dramatic rock songs, empower him as a writer and …
Migration and Religion: Imiscoe Short Reader
The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music
Awakening – an Islamic media company formed in London – has created the soundtrack to many Muslim lives during the last two decades and has produced superstars like Sami Yusuf and Maher Zain, among a host of other artists. As the company celebrates its first 20 years in the industry, the book examines Awakening’s rise to global success and their pop music inspired by Islam. Providing the first thorough description of the history and development o…
The Message and its Media
Chapter five analyses the messages of Awakening through detailed studies of the lyrics, the instrumentation and production of Awakening songs. First, it identifies four recurrent themes of the lyrics (praising Allah, Muhammad, spiritual awakening, love) and then discusses other topics addressed such as political freedom in authoritarian states. The overall impression is that lyrics are rather straight-forward and devout including little or no amb…
Awakening of Islamic Pop Music
Music Version” versus “Vocals-Only”: Islamic Pop Music, Aesthetics, and Ethics
This article analyzes vocals-only Islamic pop music as a musical genre and mode of production. The aim is to present and discuss this particular form in relation both to its history as an Islamic phenomenon and, more broadly, to consumer society aesthetics. The article focuses on songs from the Islamic media company Awakening and its highly successful output of Islamic pop music, sketching the genealogy of vocals-only music in Islam before analyz…
I am Satan!” black metal, Islam and blasphemy in Turkey and Saudi Arabia
During the last decade, black metal bands have recorded anti-Islamic music in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Black metal is renowned for being anti-authoritarian and especially against organized religion. As such, black metal music is a strong expression of protest against, and repudiation of, society, manifesting social pressure, and contrasting with the discursively normal. Using the results from two case studies – one on Turkey, the other on Saudi A…
Introduction: Researching Popular Music Censorship
The present volume brings together six articles which all address issues of censorship in music. While restrictions on free speech in popular music are often ascribed to the semantic content of lyrics or images, the authors in this special issue take their point of departure from the perception that the musical sound in its complexity rather plays a major role in silencing musicians and artists. Drawing on diverse cases of restrictions in various…
Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt’s Islamic Revival By Karin van Nieuwkerk
This ambitious study by Dutch anthropology professor Karin van Nieuwkerk is a vital contribution to the anthropology of Islam. Covering three decades of development in Egyptian society, from the 1980s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, it is a fascinating read. Van Nieuwkerk’s dissertation (published in 1995) was based on fieldwork among female dancers and singers in Cairo. Returning to Cairo in the first decade of the twenty-first …
I wouldn’t call them Muslims!”: Constructing a Respectable Islam
This article addresses the understanding of Islam of nine young adult Muslims living in the Malmö and Copenhagen region.1 Throughout the interviews with the young adults, they mark their distance from what they perceive as unacceptable forms of Islamic ideas and practices, labeling these ideas as extremist and inconsistent. They develop discursive techniques of distancing themselves from the mediated Islam of radicals and the often negative rende…
Music and Islam
Wahhabi ideology of social control versus a new publicness in Saudi Arabia
Ritualization among young adult Muslims in Malmö and Copenhagen
The article focuses on the methodological implications of a research project on young adult Muslims. The research is based on repeated interviews with nine young adults who are not deeply devout Muslims. Rather, they have a Muslim family history and at least a relation to the faith. Six of them practise to some extent and believe in the central tenets of Islam. The article argues that it is important to complement the research about devout Muslim…
Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden
With the use of multiple regression technique, the principal objective of this study is to clarify and examine young people's attitudes towards Muslims, and the relationships between these attitudes and a large number of background factors. We use a representative sample of 9,498 non-Muslim youths between 15-19 years of age. The main results show that when controlling for several background variables simultaneously, the country of birth, socio-ec…
Battling over the public sphere: Islamic reactions to the music of today
What is Reasonable to Demand? Islam in Swedish Textbooks
Several textbooks on religion and the philosophy of life are available to teachers in upper-secondary schools in Sweden, and teachers are free to choose which book(s) they want to use. This critical survey discusses seven textbooks in current use in schools in Malmö (the third city of Sweden). The sections on Islam have been read and critically reviewed, and some critical arguments not mentioned in previous research are developed. Among other thi…
The Depiction of Islam in Sweden
Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden
With the use of multiple regression technique, the principal objective of this study is to clarify and examine young people's attitudes towards Muslims, and the relationships between these attitudes and a large number of background factors. We use a representative sample of 9,498 non-Muslim youths between 15-19 years of age. The main results show that when controlling for several background variables simultaneously, the country of birth, socio-ec…
Battling over the public sphere: Islamic reactions to the music of today
Music and Islam
Ritualization among young adult Muslims in Malmö and Copenhagen
The article focuses on the methodological implications of a research project on young adult Muslims. The research is based on repeated interviews with nine young adults who are not deeply devout Muslims. Rather, they have a Muslim family history and at least a relation to the faith. Six of them practise to some extent and believe in the central tenets of Islam. The article argues that it is important to complement the research about devout Muslim…
Migration and Religion: Imiscoe Short Reader
Wahhabi ideology of social control versus a new publicness in Saudi Arabia
Introduction: Researching Popular Music Censorship
The present volume brings together six articles which all address issues of censorship in music. While restrictions on free speech in popular music are often ascribed to the semantic content of lyrics or images, the authors in this special issue take their point of departure from the perception that the musical sound in its complexity rather plays a major role in silencing musicians and artists. Drawing on diverse cases of restrictions in various…
What is Reasonable to Demand? Islam in Swedish Textbooks
Several textbooks on religion and the philosophy of life are available to teachers in upper-secondary schools in Sweden, and teachers are free to choose which book(s) they want to use. This critical survey discusses seven textbooks in current use in schools in Malmö (the third city of Sweden). The sections on Islam have been read and critically reviewed, and some critical arguments not mentioned in previous research are developed. Among other thi…
I am Satan!” black metal, Islam and blasphemy in Turkey and Saudi Arabia
During the last decade, black metal bands have recorded anti-Islamic music in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Black metal is renowned for being anti-authoritarian and especially against organized religion. As such, black metal music is a strong expression of protest against, and repudiation of, society, manifesting social pressure, and contrasting with the discursively normal. Using the results from two case studies – one on Turkey, the other on Saudi A…
I wouldn’t call them Muslims!”: Constructing a Respectable Islam
This article addresses the understanding of Islam of nine young adult Muslims living in the Malmö and Copenhagen region.1 Throughout the interviews with the young adults, they mark their distance from what they perceive as unacceptable forms of Islamic ideas and practices, labeling these ideas as extremist and inconsistent. They develop discursive techniques of distancing themselves from the mediated Islam of radicals and the often negative rende…
The Depiction of Islam in Sweden
The Depiction of Islam in Sweden
What is Reasonable to Demand? Islam in Swedish Textbooks
Several textbooks on religion and the philosophy of life are available to teachers in upper-secondary schools in Sweden, and teachers are free to choose which book(s) they want to use. This critical survey discusses seven textbooks in current use in schools in Malmö (the third city of Sweden). The sections on Islam have been read and critically reviewed, and some critical arguments not mentioned in previous research are developed. Among other thi…
Battling over the public sphere: Islamic reactions to the music of today
Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden
With the use of multiple regression technique, the principal objective of this study is to clarify and examine young people's attitudes towards Muslims, and the relationships between these attitudes and a large number of background factors. We use a representative sample of 9,498 non-Muslim youths between 15-19 years of age. The main results show that when controlling for several background variables simultaneously, the country of birth, socio-ec…
Ritualization among young adult Muslims in Malmö and Copenhagen
The article focuses on the methodological implications of a research project on young adult Muslims. The research is based on repeated interviews with nine young adults who are not deeply devout Muslims. Rather, they have a Muslim family history and at least a relation to the faith. Six of them practise to some extent and believe in the central tenets of Islam. The article argues that it is important to complement the research about devout Muslim…
Music and Islam
Wahhabi ideology of social control versus a new publicness in Saudi Arabia
I wouldn’t call them Muslims!”: Constructing a Respectable Islam
This article addresses the understanding of Islam of nine young adult Muslims living in the Malmö and Copenhagen region.1 Throughout the interviews with the young adults, they mark their distance from what they perceive as unacceptable forms of Islamic ideas and practices, labeling these ideas as extremist and inconsistent. They develop discursive techniques of distancing themselves from the mediated Islam of radicals and the often negative rende…
Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt’s Islamic Revival By Karin van Nieuwkerk
This ambitious study by Dutch anthropology professor Karin van Nieuwkerk is a vital contribution to the anthropology of Islam. Covering three decades of development in Egyptian society, from the 1980s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, it is a fascinating read. Van Nieuwkerk’s dissertation (published in 1995) was based on fieldwork among female dancers and singers in Cairo. Returning to Cairo in the first decade of the twenty-first …
Introduction: Researching Popular Music Censorship
The present volume brings together six articles which all address issues of censorship in music. While restrictions on free speech in popular music are often ascribed to the semantic content of lyrics or images, the authors in this special issue take their point of departure from the perception that the musical sound in its complexity rather plays a major role in silencing musicians and artists. Drawing on diverse cases of restrictions in various…
I am Satan!” black metal, Islam and blasphemy in Turkey and Saudi Arabia
During the last decade, black metal bands have recorded anti-Islamic music in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Black metal is renowned for being anti-authoritarian and especially against organized religion. As such, black metal music is a strong expression of protest against, and repudiation of, society, manifesting social pressure, and contrasting with the discursively normal. Using the results from two case studies – one on Turkey, the other on Saudi A…
Music Version” versus “Vocals-Only”: Islamic Pop Music, Aesthetics, and Ethics
This article analyzes vocals-only Islamic pop music as a musical genre and mode of production. The aim is to present and discuss this particular form in relation both to its history as an Islamic phenomenon and, more broadly, to consumer society aesthetics. The article focuses on songs from the Islamic media company Awakening and its highly successful output of Islamic pop music, sketching the genealogy of vocals-only music in Islam before analyz…
The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music
Awakening – an Islamic media company formed in London – has created the soundtrack to many Muslim lives during the last two decades and has produced superstars like Sami Yusuf and Maher Zain, among a host of other artists. As the company celebrates its first 20 years in the industry, the book examines Awakening’s rise to global success and their pop music inspired by Islam. Providing the first thorough description of the history and development o…
The Message and its Media
Chapter five analyses the messages of Awakening through detailed studies of the lyrics, the instrumentation and production of Awakening songs. First, it identifies four recurrent themes of the lyrics (praising Allah, Muhammad, spiritual awakening, love) and then discusses other topics addressed such as political freedom in authoritarian states. The overall impression is that lyrics are rather straight-forward and devout including little or no amb…
Awakening of Islamic Pop Music
For the Love of the Beloved: Peter Murphy’s Creative Use of Sufi tropes
Rock artist Peter Murphy (Bauhaus, Dali’s Car, solo) has drawn from Sufism in his lyrics since 1986. Throughout his career Murphy has been open about this but no one has analysed his lyrics before. This article illustrates and discusses how tropes from Sufi genres, such as poetry, hymns and tales, are reused and reformulated in the form of post-punk rock lyrics. Sufi tropes, combined with Murphy’s dramatic rock songs, empower him as a writer and …
Migration and Religion: Imiscoe Short Reader
British Muslim women in the cultural and creative industries , by Saskia Warren, and Muslims making British media: Popular culture, performance and public religion , by Carl Morris
Grace & Poise: A Muslim ballet school in the UK
Grace & Poise Academy is a Muslim ballet school with a unique syllabuswhere students dance to poetry, not music, expectations of female modestyamong parents, teachers and students are met and attention is paid to Islamic theologyand morals. While cultivating Islamic adab (etiquette), akhlaq (ethics) andIslamic pedagogies, the academy is also inspired by classical ballet training andalternative holistic educational traditions. The result is both t…
Den förvirrade svenska etikdiskussionen
Utgångspunkten för denna essä är de hätska diskussionerna kring Sameh Egyptsons avhandling i missionsvetenskap framlagd den 10 februari 2023 vid Lunds universitet, särskilt meningsutbytena kring de forskningsetiska frågorna. Särskilt ifrågasattevissa hanteringen av känsliga personuppgifter. Under projektets gång hade ny lagstiftning introducerats, men projektet etikprövades aldrig. Vissa kritiker valde att anmäla forskningen. En av dessa anmälnin…
Islam (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)