2
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Job Ads Don’t Add Up: Arabic + Middle East + Texts ≠ Islam

      1
      Journal of the American Academy of Religion
      Oxford University Press (OUP)

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisher
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Job advertisements for Islamic studies faculty positions provide material and significant insight into the construction and reification of a normative Islam. These ads serve to further entrench inaccurate notions of “authentic” Islam. Quantitative and qualitative data demonstrate how religious studies colleagues craft job calls that replicate stereotypes about Islam and Muslims, how the study of Islam functions, and an Arab and Arabic-centric emphasis. Such ads prefer specific regions (the Middle East), languages (Arabic), and subjects (texts). Ironically, this archive shows that ads for jobs in the field of Islamic studies frequently instantiate biases and stereotypes that Islamic studies scholars dedicate their careers to dismantling. Stated hiring preferences, including teaching obligations, entrench an “essence” of Islam or Islamic studies at odds with scholarly discourse about Islam, Islamic studies, and religious studies that may be summarized as a simple, troubling equation: Islam = Middle East + Arabic + texts.

          Related collections

          Most cited references38

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Book: not found

          On Being Included

          Sara Ahmed (2012)
            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Book: not found

            The Venture of Islam, Volume 1

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Book: not found

              Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Journal
                Journal of the American Academy of Religion
                Oxford University Press (OUP)
                0002-7189
                1477-4585
                December 01 2020
                December 31 2020
                November 17 2020
                December 01 2020
                December 31 2020
                November 17 2020
                : 88
                : 4
                : 915-946
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Religion, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
                Article
                10.1093/jaarel/lfaa058
                c8c82786-c8ed-487a-9a49-38bd771b731e
                © 2020

                https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model

                History

                Comments

                Comment on this article