“Our Test Is Living a Community Life”
“Our Test Is Living a Community Life”
This chapter examines community life during Ramadan, the holy month when believers strove the hardest to deepen their faith and their collective actions became most intense. It shows the obstacles believers faced when trying to fulfill their religious obligation to feed the less fortunate, including moral debates within the community over whom to feed first. These obstacles, and the ways that believers worked through them as a community with overlapping and sometimes competing material needs, sets up a core tension of the book. The chapter shows how pious agency is structured by and within local social, political, and economic contexts and how believers work the immediate environment and its structural dimensions of urban disadvantage into their formulations of what it means to be Muslim.
Keywords: Ramadan, African American, community
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