“God Never existed, and I was looking for him like crazy!” Muslim Stories of Deconversion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction Moving In and Out of Islam1 1
4. People Do Not Convert but Change Critical Analysis of Concepts of Spiritual Transitions 27
5. Moving In or Moving Toward? Reconceptualizing Conversion to Islam as a Liminal Process1 44
6. Understanding Religious Apostasy, Disaffiliation, and Islam in Contemporary Sweden 67
7. Giving Islam a Germ an Face 91
8. Merging Culture with Religion Trajectories of Slovak and Czech Muslim Converts since 19891 107
9. Moving into Shiʿa Islam The “Process of Subjectification” among Shiʿa Women Converts in London1 130
10. Can a Tatar Move Out of Islam? 152
11. Religious Authority and Conversions in Berlin’ s Sufi Communities 179
12. Deradicalization through Conversion to Traditional Islam Hamza Yusuf’s Attempt to Revive Sacred Knowledge within a North Atlantic Context 204
13. Escaping the Limelight The Politics of Opacity and the Life of a Dutch Preacher in the UK 232
14. British Muslim Converts Comparing Conversion and Deconversion Processes to and from Islam 257
15. In the Closet The Concealment of Apostasy among Ex-Muslims in Britain and Canada 281
16. Religious Skepticism and Nonbelieving in Egypt 306
17. “God Never existed, and I was looking for him like crazy!” Muslim Stories of Deconversion 333
18. Faith No More The Views of Lithuanian Converts to Islam on Deconversion 363
19. Let’s Talk about Apostasy! Swedish Imams, Apostasy Debates, and Police Reports on Hate Crimes and (De)conversion1 385
20. Contributors 405
21. Index 411