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by Satoshi Adachi (Author)
How do second-generation immigrant Muslims, born and raised in the UK, perceive themselves and present their identities in the post-9/11 social environment, where Islamophobia is pervasive? Muslim and British post-9/11 addresses this question through research in Muslim communities in East London and Coventry. Second-generation Muslims in Britain must struggle with negative discourses against Muslims and construct identities in response. In the process, using various strategies, religious knowledge and informatization, they demonstrate the compatibility of being both British and Muslim within their local communities and in society at large. Satoshi Adachi advocates that the identity and social integration of young Muslims in British society today can be better understood through the frame of reflexive modernisation theory. From this perspective, he discusses diverse themes, including multiculturalism, women and agency, closed and open identities, information technology, the individualisation of faith, and the semantics of the hijab to describe Islam as an 'everyday lived religion'.
Author Biography
Satoshi Adachi, PhD, is a Professor of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. He works widely in the areas of sociological theory, political philosophy, immigrants and ethnic minorities, and gender and religion. He is currently engaged in comparative research on Muslim women in the UK, Malaysia and Japan, studies of sport and faith among Muslim women, and the theory of post-secularism. The Japanese version of this book won the JSS Prize from the Japan Sociological Society in 2021.
