In recent years, the ways of producing and mobilizing Islamic identity, and being a Muslim in Brazil, have undergone important transformations. An increase in the number of Brazilians converting has contributed to this process, raising questions about what Islam is and in what forms and spaces to experience it in the local context, where Muslims are a minority. This article examines these dynamics by analyzing how understandings of Islam are constructed and circulated by Muslims and their Sunni and Shia institutions in Rio de Janeiro. The data presented here are the result of ethnographic fieldwork conducted among Muslims and their institutions in Rio de Janeiro in different periods between 2005 and 2017.
Chagas, Gisele Fonseca. “Muslims in Rio de Janeiro: Identities and Institutions.” Brazil (s). Human and Social Sciences 14 (2018).
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