Isis is not Islam’

Epistemic Injustice, Everyday Religion, and Young Muslims’ Narrative Resistance

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ID8403362
AuthorsSandberg (0000-0002-1639-6164, University of Oslo, corresponding author), Sveinung Sandberg, Sarah Colvin (0000-0002-2776-3185, University of Cambridge)
Year2020
Publication date2020-05-23
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azaa035
OpenAlexW3028103303
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited44

Powerful narratives that invoke religious concepts—jihad, Sharia, shahid, Caliphate, kuffar, and al-Qiyāmah—have accompanied jihadi violence but also inspired robust counter-narratives from Muslims. Taking a narrative criminological approach, we explore the rejection of religious extremism that emerges in everyday interactions in a religious community under intense pressure in Western societies. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 90 young Muslims in Norway, we argue that young Muslims suffer epistemic injustice in their narrative exclusion from the mainstream and assess the narrative credibility they try to maintain in the face of marginalization. We suggest that young Muslims’ religious narratives reject a mainstream characterization of Islam as essentially a religion of aggression and simultaneously join forces with that mainstream in seeking the narrative exclusion of the jihadi extremists

Art · Credibility · Injustice · Islam · Literature · Mainstream · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Political science · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Theology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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