The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture

The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture is a comprehensive reference source for key topics, problems, and debates in the challenging research field of Islam and consumer culture. It explores religion and Islamic normativity as a resource for product design, attitudes toward commodification, and appropriated patterns of behavior. The handbook comprises 35 chapters by international contributors and is divided into seven parts, covering vibrant debates around consumption, frugality, Islamic jurisprudence, fatwas, the world economy, capitalism, neoliberalism, trade relations, halalization, labor tourism, and travel infrastructure. It includes case studies from countries across the world and is essential reading for students and researchers in Islamic studies, Near and Middle Eastern studies, religious studies, and cultural studies. Chapter 11 is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF.

Format: Hardback
Length: 536 pages
Publication date: 16 September 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture is a comprehensive inter- and transdisciplinary reference source that explores key topics, problems, and debates in the challenging research field of Islam and consumer culture. Comprising 35 chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into seven parts: Guiding Frameworks of Understanding, Historical Probes, Urbanism and Consumption, Body Manipulation, Vestiary Regimes, and Gender, Mediated Religion and Culture, Consumer Culture, Lifestyle, and Senses of the Self through Consumption, Markets, and Case Studies. The chapters examine vibrant debates around consumption, frugality, Islamic jurisprudence and fatwas in the world economy, capitalism, neoliberalism, trade relations, halalization, (labor) tourism and travel infrastructure, body modification, fashion, self-fashioning, lifestylization, Islamic kitsch, urban regeneration, heritage, Islamic finance, the internet, and Quran recitation versus music. Contributions present selected case studies from countries across the world, including China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Qatar, Pakistan, and Turkey. The handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in Islamic studies, Near and Middle Eastern studies, religious studies, and cultural studies. It is also useful for those in related fields, such as politics, area studies, sociology, anthropology, and history. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Weight: 1110g
Dimension: 252 x 177 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367715830