Pop Islam Paul Wheeler Shore offers a deeply nuanced

Shore offers a deeply nuanced and hopeful consideration of Islam's future in the West

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He demonstrates that these extraordinary phenomena can actually deepen our understanding of mysticism in unexpected ways

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Pop Islam Paul Wheeler Shore offers a deeply nuancedIn the West, Islam and Muslim life have been imagined as existing in an opposing state to popular culture a frozen faith unable to engage with the dynamic way popular culture shifts over time, its followers reduced to tropes of terrorism and enemies of the state. Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media traces narratives found in contemporary American comic books, scripted and reality television, fashion magazines, comedy routines, and