RT Article
T1 Deen and Dunya: Islam, street spirituality, crime and redemption in English road culture
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 28
IS 2
SP 232
OP 249
A1 Reid, Ebony
A2 Ilan, Jonathan
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1888278706
AB This article presents ethnographic and media analysis that explores how Islam has come to shape conceptions of the material, sacred, crime and redemption in contemporary English street culture. Islam’s clear dichotomy between the mundane ‘Dunya’ and sacred ‘Deen’ shape how socio-economically marginalised, ethnic minority men make sense of the world around them. Stark inequalities have tainted the material world for the UK’s most disadvantaged, prompting them to seek redemption entirely outside it – in the world of the sacred where they can experience warmth. In analysing their experiences we highlight how paths to desistance have arguably been overlooked where analyses of Islam in street culture have focused on questions of radicalisation.
K1 Street culture
K1 Religion
K1 Redemption
K1 Marginalisation
K1 Ethnography
K1 Ethnic minorities
K1 Desistance
DO 10.1177/13624806231184172