Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy John O’Brien has an upcoming book titled “Growing Up Muslim in America: Culture, Religion, Politics“, which is the result of a three-year ethnographic research with Muslim youth in the United States post-9/11.
He did an interview with NYU Abu Dhabi’s Office of Public Affairs in December 2015, where he discusses his findings, in particular Muslim youth’s struggle to find a middle-ground between religion propriety and Western liberalism. Suggests O’Brien, “Is something about religious Islam that makes it fundamentally incompatible with Western culture?”
The interview might be an interesting read (and the book, when it comes out).
March 28, 2017 at 2:11 pm
Yes–it certainly sounds like the sort of book that would be quite relevant to this course. Can you say something about the interview he did? What kind of questions was he asked? Who asked them? What sort of questions from audience did he get if there was a Q and A? Is there a link to it you can provide? In other words–this post needs a bit more flesh!
March 28, 2017 at 4:27 pm
The interview is actually linked in the post above, but the URL is here: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/news/research-innovation/2015/12/resident-expert–growing-up-muslim-in-america.html