Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-240).

Zugl.: Magdeburg, Univ., Diss., 2009

Muslims in the Metropolis is about everyday social and cultural practices through which Muslim identity and ‘community’ are made. The study takes Birmingham, a city synonymous with Muslims and the area of Sparkbrook, which has decades long associations with racialised communities, as sites of Muslim-making. While there is considerable literature concerned with the Muslim presence in Western European public spheres, much of it treats the city as merely incidental in the lives of Muslims; as places where they have settled and, then, generated formal spaces, infrastructures and narratives relating to their presence. A key argument advanced in this thesis is that impressions of Muslims as a ‘community’ defined through the lens of settlement patterns resulting from immigration, folk-religious practices carried over from other homelands, socio-economic disadvantage and various other markers of their presence, lend them to being understood in essentialist ways. A number of scholars have noted this and how discourses about ‘parallel lives’, ‘clash of civilisations’ and ‘religious extremism’ have culminated in the Muslim question. In this study I do not so much seek to challenge such representations, but to consider what is left over – the excess - from these framings. A key consequence I argue is that Muslims, when viewed and worked with officially as a ‘community’ based on sensibilities of race relations management in the city, misses the vitality of Muslim life as it is made everyday in relation to discourses and materials linked with their presence in the city. Through the use of ethnography and specifically observations and interviews conducted with people involved in setting up and running an ‘alternative Muslim arts centre’, a local ‘community’ radio station and diffuse networks of social action across the city, I trace different contours of Muslim identity and ‘community’ in the making. Ethnographic methods, I argue, allow valuable insights into how Muslims relate to the city as a place historically marked and presently targeted through racialised narratives and categories of control. There are complex negotiations that go on, where Muslims occasionally resist as well as fold into authoritative discourses and structures around them. Attention is paid to how Muslims live in the interstices of these and how through their social practices generate alternative meanings toward being Muslim; as something not given in the existing nomenclature of multicultural identities in the city, but in process and becoming. These everyday urban rituals of Muslims, therefore, present a challenge to official and academic efforts that attempt to represent or confer recognition on Muslims.

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"This study was designed to seek out and explore the range of problems as reflected in parents whose circumstances lead to the care of their children apart from the family. The children represented in the study were admitted to a children's institution which provided for their physical and supervisory care. Major attention throughout the study was focused on the parental problems as reflected in the impairment in ability of the parents for continued care of their children. The study does not endeavor to isolate or define the specific causalities of parental impairment. It does propose to show categorically the types of problems existing with the break-down of parental care of the children"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Douglas Brown, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Feb. 8, 2007). Thesis advisor: Anita I. Drever. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Ed. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. "May 2003." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-99).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Southern Christian University, Montgomery, Ala., 1998. / Abstract. Appendix includes copy of "Reviving the plateaued church" by J. Wayne Kilpatrick (leaves 139-204). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-97).

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1962. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Includes tables (part fold.). Sponsor: Harry Wilson. Dissertation Committee: Ernest Harris. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-126).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2001. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 466-476).