%0 Journal Article
%T Changing constructions of religious visibility: The case of an African American Muslim community in South Central LA
%A Pamela Prickett
%J Social Compass
%@ 1461-7404
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0037768618813765
%X Through a case study of a mosque in Los Angeles, I examine how changing constructions of space affect the ways a religious community comes together to engage faith. I show how as the neighborhood was undergoing dramatic change, so too were the ways believers at the mosque interpreted Islam. I divide my analyses into three parts, following the major chronological shifts of religious praxis in this African American Muslim community: (1) early days as members of the Nation of Islam (1950¨C1975); (2) ¡®transition¡¯ from the Nation to Sunni Islam in the mid 1970s; (3) and the post-transition period of rebuilding that continues into the present day. Together they produce a historical interaction effect of economic, demographic (immigration) and internal religious changes that lead to current dilemmas mosque members must address
%K African Americans
%K Islam
%K mosque
%K religious visibility
%K space
%K afro-am¨¦ricains
%K espace
%K Islam
%K mosqu¨¦e
%K visibilit¨¦ religieuse
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0037768618813765