These two collections can (and should) be profitably read together. Many aspects of Iran's June 2009 “Green Revolution” and this year's “Arab Spring” were anticipated in the research in Being Young and Muslim. A number of studies in Islam and Democratization in Asia respond to aftermath of similar (sometimes failed) democratizing efforts in the Islamic World. It is not that the recent history of Indonesia, to take an example, provides a window on the future of Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution; rather, it provides a short, sobering list of probable futures. There are some areas of geographical and thematic overlap between the collections as well. The experience of Muslim minorities in Europe in Being Young and Muslim makes for interesting reading alongside analyses of the Muslim experience as minorities in India and China in Islam and Democratization in Asia. That said, the collections generally offer different approaches to their subjects...
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November 01 2011
Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North
Islam and Democratization in Asia
Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North
. Edited by Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat. Oxford
: Oxford University Press
, 2010
. 443 pp. $99.00 (cloth), $29.95 (paper).Islam and Democratization in Asia
. Edited by Shiping Hua. Amherst, NY
: Cambria Press
, 2009
. 352 pp. $119.00 (cloth).
Camron Michael Amin
Camron Michael Amin
University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1107–1109.
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Camron Michael Amin; Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North
Islam and Democratization in Asia. Journal of Asian Studies 1 November 2011; 70 (4): 1107–1109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911811001720
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