Hijab As Icon YVONNE YAZBECK HADDAD 269 Hijab and American Muslim Women: Creating Space for Autonomous Selves RHYS H

VOLUME 68 No. 3 FALL 2007 FROM THE EDITOR v What is Society Publishing For? DAVID YAMANE SPECIAL ISSUE INTRODUCTION 231 The Politics of Veiling in Comparative Perspective JEN’NAN GHAZAL READ ARTICLES 237 Visible through the Veil: The Regulation of Islam in American Law KATHLEEN M. MOORE 253 The Post-9/11 Hijab as Icon YVONNE YAZBECK HADDAD 269 Hijab and American Muslim Women: Creating Space for Autonomous Selves RHYS H. WILLIAMS AND GIRA VASHI 289 France Upside Down over a Headscarf? SOPHIE BODY-GENDROT 305 From a Community of Believers to an Islam of the Heart: “Conspicuous” Symbols, Muslim Practices, and the Privatization of Religion in France CAITLIN KILLIAN COMMENTARY 321 Global Contexts and the Veil: Muslim Integration in the United States and France KRISTINE J. AJROUCH BOOK REVIEWS 327 The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York by Peter J Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler, Lawrence H. Mamiya, Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, and Judith Weisenfeld KATIE DAY 328 The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico by Michael P. Carroll ENRIQUE R. LAMADRID 329 There's Never Been a Show Like Veggie Tales: Sacred Messages in a Secular Market by Hillary Warren LYNN SCHOFIELD CLARK 331 Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey by Paul Freston DAVID SMILDE 332 Religious Influences on Health and Well-Being in the Elderly by K. Warner Schaie, Neal Krause, and Alan Booth NATALIE E. DUPREE 333 Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States by Helen A. Berger, Evan A. Leach, and Leigh S. Shaffer KIM PHILIP HANSEN 335 The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe by Philip S. Gorski JAMES V. S PICKARD 336 Sociology and the Sacred: An Introduction to Philip Rieff's Theory of Culture by Antonius Zondervan PAMELA LEONG The Association for the Sociology of Religion supports the Code of Ethics of the American Sociological Association and other professional associa- tions in the social sciences with respect to multiple submissions of manu- scripts to academic journals. In cases where a manuscript has been deter- mined to have been submitted to this journal when it is also under consideration by another journal or vlce versa, that manuscript will be rejected from further consideration by Sociology of Religion. Persons unfamiliar with the Code of Ethics of the American Sociological Association may obtain a copy by writing to ASA at 1722 N Street NW,Washington, DC 20036. ii CONTRIBUTORS KRISTINE J. AJROUCH is director of the Gerontology Program and associate professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University, as well as adjunct associate research professor at the Institute for Social Research at The University of Michigan. Her research has focused, for over ten years, on Arabs in the U.S. and more recently in the Middle East. She has published in numerous national and international journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Science and Medicine, and Aging and Society. Her current work focuses on projects that enhance global awareness and promote cross-cultural understanding. SOPHIE BODY-GENDROT is a professor of political science and American studies and the director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Sorbonne- Paris IV. Specializing in cross-national comparisons of minorities, including Muslim youth in French cities, her research focuses on comparative public poli- cy, ethnic and racial issues, urban disorders, and empowerment. A frequent visit- ing scholar at New York University and an expert on public space in the Urban Age Program of the London School of Economics, she has published numerous articles in Europe and in the United States. YVONNE YAZBECK HADDAD is professor of history of Islam and Christian- Muslim relations at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. She has published extensively on Islam in the twentieth century, Muslims in North America, Qur’an and Qur’anic Exegesis, Christian-Muslim relations, and women in Islam. Her recent books include Not Quite American? The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United States (Baylor University Press, 2004). She is past- president of the American Academy of Religion (New England Region) and the Middle East Studies Association. CAITLIN KILLIAN is an associate professor of sociology at Drew University. Her interests include immigration and cultural adaptation, identity processes, and gender and ethnic socialization. She has published articles on Maghrebin women’s cultural adaptation in France, Muslim women’s views on the headscarf affair in France, immigrants’ identity negotiation, Vietnamese parents and children in the United States, and the role of bicultural competence in reducing crime among the children of immigrants. She is the author of North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and Identity (Stanford University Press, 2006). KATHLEEN MOORE is a professor at the University of California—Santa Barbara. Trained as a political scientist, her interests include the interdisciplinary study of law and society, specifically related to the presence of Muslim communities in the United States and Britain. Her most recent publications include a co-authored book, Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today (Oxford iii iv SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION University Press, 2006), as well as essays on anti-Muslim violence and discrimi- nation in post-9/11 America and the impact of media on American attitudes toward Muslims in the United States. Her current work focuses on the requisites for legal mobilization among Muslims in the U.S. JEN’NAN GHAZAL READ is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the economic, cultural, and political adaptation experiences of Muslim Americans and Arab Americans. She has published widely on this topic, including numerous articles and a book, Culture, Class, and Work among Arab-American Women (LFB Scholarly, 2004). She was recently named a Carnegie Scholar and she is using this award to examine how racial/ethnic and religious diversity among Muslim Americans impacts their par- ticipation in democratic processes. GIRA VASHI is a portfolio analyst for Amli Residential in Chicago. She was an intern and then research assistant on the Youth and Religion Project. Many of the interviews used in this paper come from her M.A. thesis research. RHYS H. WILLIAMS is professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati. He writes regularly on issues of religion, public culture, and politics, particularly in urban settings. Recent publications include “Liberalism, Religion, and the Dilemma of ‘Immigrant Rights’ in American Political Culture” (in Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants, P. Hondagneu-Sotelo, ed., 2007), and “Religion in the City: Confronting the ‘Other’ Every Day” (in Varieties of Urban Experience: The American City and the Practice of Culture, M. Borer, ed., 2006). Sociology of Religion 2007, 68:3 v-ix What is Society Publishing For? David Yamane Wake Forest University Before I turn to the substantive issue I would like to treat in this column, a word of thanks to Jen’nan Read for her hard work in making this special issue a reality. Most of the articles in this issue were first presented at a conference she organized that received generous support from the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation and the Center for the Study of Democracy at UC-Irvine. All of us as sociologists of religion should be grateful for the willingness of organizations such as these to fund our work, and we ought to follow Jen’nan’s lead in seeking out these uncommon sources of funding. Thanks also to Kristine Ajrouch for reviewing the issue and writing a commentary on its contents. * * * Last December, I attended an executive seminar on “Society Publishing: Envisioning Futures, Evolving Strategies,” hosted by Blackwell Publishing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The daylong seminar covered a variety of interesting topics, such as: “institutional repositories” as alternatives to scholarly journals, the implications of usage-based versus subscription pricing for libraries, and the ever-provocative issue of impact factors.1 Sitting in this seminar for an entire day raised a more general question, what is society publishing for? Why does the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) as a professional society sponsor a journal? Margaret Branschofsky, a librarian at Tufts University who spoke at the seminar, suggested four functions of society publishing: registration, archive, dissem- ination, and validation. Registration is essentially publicity for things happening in the field. Book reviews are a good example of this. Given limited advertising budgets for scholarly books, the publication of a book review in a scholarly journal often serves as the major notice to the field as a whole that a book exists. This is especially true for scholars outside the book’s immediate area of concern and others beyond the author’s circle of family and friends. Journals also serve as an archive, a public form of a scholarly society’s institutional memory. To wit: Sociology of Religion is committed to publishing the two 1Although interesting, the issue of impact factors does not affect Sociology of Religion directly because this journal is not among those ranked by Thomson ISI. v vi SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION keynote lectures from the ASR’s annual meeting: the Presidential Address and the Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture. The journal also used to have a right of first review for the ASR’s Robert J. McNamara Student Paper Award winner, though the council voted recently to rescind that requirement—a decision I hope is reconsidered in the future precisely because of this archival function of the journal. Finally, the journal occasionally publishes special issues based on papers presented at the annual meeting.

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