Associate Professor Gabriele Marranci

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Biography

Dr Gabriele Marranci is an anthropologist by training working on religion with a specialisation in Muslim societies. His main research interests concern identity, Muslim migration/immigration, urban sociology, fundamentalism, political Islam, secularisation processes, criminology, and anthropology of music as well as the relationship between anthropological research and cognitive neuroscience. He has widely published both articles, edit books, and monographs such as  Jihad beyond Islam,  The Anthropology of Islam,  Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism as well as the result of his last research on current and former Muslim prisoners in the UK, Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons.
Dr Marranci has successfully started, as founding editor, the first anthropological journal of Islamic Studies, Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, published by the international publisher Springer and together with Prof. Bryan Turner, the book series Muslims in Global Societies also by Springer.
He has experience in the supervision of both master and doctoral students within the field of the Anthropology of Islam.
Previous to the appointment at UWS, Dr Gabriele Marranci was a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and for the 2008-09 academic year he has been appointed as Senior Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore.

Areas of Expertise

Identity, Muslim migration/immigration, urban sociology, fundamentalism, political Islam, secularisation processes, criminology, and anthropology of music, the relationship between anthropological research and cognitive neuroscience.

Selected Publications

Editorship:
* Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life (Founding Editor)
* Book series: Muslims in Global Societies by Springer (Founding Editor)
* Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Religions  (Section Editor for Islam and anthropology)

Books:
* Jihad beyond Islam (Berg, London and New York , 2006). Hb ISBN 1845201574, Pb ISBN 1845201582
* Anthropology of Islam (Berg, London and New York, 2008). Hb ISBN 1845202856, Pb ISBN 1845202848
* Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism, ( Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York 2008) Hb 978-0230002555
* Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons, (Continuum Books,London and New York, forthcoming)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
* 2007 Marranci, G. ‘From the Ethos of Justice to the Ideology of Justice: Understanding Radical Views of Scottish Muslims’ in Tahir Abbas (ed.) Islamic Political Radicalism: A European Comparative Perspective, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN Pbk 0748625283, Hbk 0748625275
* 2006(b) Marranci, G. ‘Muslim in Northern Ireland: dangerous symbols and the use of English’ in R. Byron, and U. Kockel (eds.), Negotiating Culture: Moving and Mixing: Migration and Boundary Crossing in Twentieth Century Europe. Munster and London: LIT Verlag ISBN 3-8258-8410-4
* 2006 (c) Marranci, G. ‘The Transmission of Islamic Heritage in Northern Ireland’ in Máiréad Nic Craith Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions, London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN Hbk 1403997489
* 2006 (d) Marranci, G ‘Muslim Marriages in Northern Ireland’ in B. Waldis and R. Byron (eds.) Migration and Marriage; Heterogamy and Homogamy in a Changing World, Munster and London: LIT Verlag, pp 40-66. ISBN 3-8258-9873-3
* 2005(b) Marranci, G. ‘South Asian Muslims in Northern Ireland: their Islamic identity, and the aftermath of 11th of September’ in Tahir Abbas (ed.) Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure, London: Zed Books.Hb ISBN 1842774484 Pb ISBN 1842774992
* 2004 (b) Marranci, G. ‘Multiculturalism, Islam, and the Clash of Civilization Theory: Rethinking Islamophobia’ Culture and Religion 5(1): 107-119

Online Content
Blog: http://marranci.wordpress.com/
Unpublished Lectures and Speeches: ©Dr Gabriele Marranci- "Faith Ideology and Fear: The Case of Current and Former Muslim Prisoners" IQRA Annual Lecture- House of Lords 26/06/2007 [PDF]