TY - BOOK ID - 145787677 TI - Religious Transformation in the Middle East : Spirituality, Religious Doubt, and Non Religion PY - 2022 PB - Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Religion & beliefs KW - (un)veiling KW - gender KW - spirituality KW - piety KW - non-belief KW - the self KW - Islam KW - Egypt KW - moral ambivalence KW - religious doubt KW - Turkey KW - Hajj KW - Morocco KW - everyday life KW - self-formation KW - anthropology of non-religion KW - lived religion KW - online activism KW - humor KW - memes KW - nonbelievers KW - freethinkers KW - atheism KW - Syria KW - Arab world KW - social media KW - criticism of Islam KW - religiosities KW - non-religiosities KW - youth KW - Alexandria KW - processes of individualisation KW - Islamism KW - Muslim Brotherhood KW - disengagement KW - the Arab Spring KW - social movements UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145787677 AB - This Special Issue draws attention to religious transformations currently emerging in the Middle East that diverge from the dominating rhetoric surrounding ‘radicalization’, ‘political Islam’, or the ‘Islamic awakening’. Particularly after the Arab uprisings, other currents seem to be coming more to the fore that need careful examination, such as the contemporary realities of religious ambivalence, religious doubts, disengagement from religious movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, the search for alternative forms of spirituality or individualized piety, de-veiling, and different forms of non-conformism, free thinking, non-belief, and atheism. Accordingly, the contributions to this Special Issue provide highly relevant insights into several contemporary debates that are crucial in the social sciences and religious studies. This includes processes of individualization; the study of everyday lived (non-)religion; the anthropology of doubt, ambivalence, and ambiguity; and, last but not least, the deconstruction of the religious–secular divide, a divide that is seen as almost impenetrable according to many actors in the Middle East. This Special Issue consists of a cross-section of current works in social science, religious studies, and related fields on Islam/religion and non-religion in the Middle East. The articles present case studies from different countries in the Middle East, with examples from Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, and Syria, as well as studies on diaspora and social media. ER -