RT Article
T1 ‘ISIS is not Islam’: epistemic Injustice, Everyday Religion, and Young Muslims’ Narrative Resistance
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 6
SP 1585
OP 1605
A1 Sandberg, Sveinung 1977-
A1 Colvin, Sarah
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1738236560
AB 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.
K1 Islam
K1 Terrorism
K1 Epistemic injustice
K1 Narrative criminology
K1 Counter-narrative
K1 Everyday religion
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa035