Religion Out Loud - 9780814708200

Religion Out LoudReligious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism\nAuthor(s): Isaac Weiner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814708200, 978-0814708200\nSynopsis\nFor six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the city's anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in disputes about the integration of Muslims into this historically Polish?Catholic community. No one openly contested Muslims' right to worship in their mosques, but many neighbors framed their resistance around what they regarded as the inappropriate public pronouncement of Islamic presence, an announcement that audibly intruded upon their public space.\n Throughout [url] history, complaints about religion as noise have proven useful both for restraining religious dissent and for circumsc.