Sufis in Western Society

Ron Geaves is Professor of the Comparative Study of Religion at Liverpool Hope University. He has been researching Muslims in Britain since 1988 and is the current Chair of the Muslims in Britain Research Network. Markus Dressler teaches Religious and Islamic Studies at Hofstra University. His research focuses on the religious history of modern Turkey, religion and secularism theory, and formations of contemporary Sufism in Western societies.Gritt Klinkhammer is Professor of the Study of Religion at Bremen University, Germany. Her research focuses on diverse facets of Islam in Germany, on theory of secularization and modernity and contemporary forms of religion Western societies.

• 1. Introduction Markus Dresser, Ron Geaves and Gritt Klinkhammer 2. Glocalization of Religions: Plural Authenticities at the Centres and at the Margins Peter Beyer 3. Global Sufism "Theirs and Ours" Marcia Hermansen 4. Globalizing the Soundworld: Islam and Sufi music in the West Michael Frishkopf 5. Pluralism and Authenticity: Sufi Paths in Post-9/11 New York Markus Dressler 6. A Case of Cultural Binary Fission or Transglobal Sufism?: The Transmigration of Sufism to Britain Ron Geaves 7. Playing with Numbers: Sufi Calculations of a Perfect Divine Universe in Manchester Pnina Werbner 8. The Emergence of Transethnic Sufism in Germany: From Mysticism to Authenticity Gritt Klinkhammer 9. Growing up as a Sufi: Generational Change in the Burhaniya Sufi Order Søren Christian Lassen 10. Between Nations and Global Islam: Sufi Activities and Community Building among Bosnian Muslims in Southern Sweden Catharina Raudvere and Ašk Gaši 11. The Reception of Sufi and Neo-Sufi Literature Mark Sedgwick

'I believe this book will contribute to the understanding of the sociology of Sufism, its transnational nature, its diversity of forms, and the origins and causes of its popularity in the west.' - Sarwar Alam, International Journal of Middle East Studies. 42 (2010)