Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes (photo courtesy of Dr. Fewkes)
As an anthropologist of religion, it’s hard for Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes to pin down her research focus to just one element of life. Rather, her expertise in anthropology allows her to see how religion is lived and practiced, how material goods transform us as much as we transform them, and how spaces reflect our lives while helping to craft them.
Tying these elements together, Dr. Fewkes latest project is a focus on the sometimes surprising, always interesting history and architecture of mosques in America.
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Cedar Rapids Iowa mosque, 1934 (photo courtesy of Dr. Fewkes)
Dr. Fewkes’ professional page: https://fau.academia.edu/JacquelineFewkes
The American Mosques Project Blog: http://americanmosques.tumblr.com/
Other works and projects by Dr. Fewkes:
Dr. Fewkes’ latest book can be found at the following two links:
- Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses
by Jacqueline Fewkes (Amazon)
- https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030135843
Interviewing museum director Maryam Rashid at the International Museum of Muslim Cultures, Jackson MS, 2015 (Photo courtesy of Dr. Fewkes)
by Jacqueline Fewkes (Amazon)Trade and Contemporary Society along the Silk Road: An ethno-history of Ladakh
Dr. Fewkes’ work with Dr. Megan Adamson Sijapati on Muslims in the Himalayas: https://digitalcommons.
More information about mosques and Islam in America:
More information on Sapelo Island, Georgia: http://www.sapeloislandga.org/
Documenting the American South Project, “Omar ibn Said, African Muslim Enslaved in the Carolinas”: http://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/omarsaid.html
https://www.nps.gov/articles/mothermosque.htm
Historical Quran from Savannah, Georgia (Photo courtesy of Dr. Fewkes)
Other anthropology sources mentioned in our conversation:
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
The Clifford Geertz quote mentioned by Dr. Fewkes, “Nobody lives in the world in general”, is from the afterword of Senses of Place
Mosque in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Photo courtesy of Jacqueline Fewkes)
