Article Title：I love Islam. Popular religious commodities, sites of inscription, and transnational Sierra Leonean identity
Abstract：
This essay explores how and why Muslim Sierra Leoneans living and working in the Washington DC metropolitan area inscribe religious identity onto their work sites by means of a variety of Islamic commodities. These items, ranging from bumper stickers and decals to informational pamphlets and kosher hot dogs, are physical manifestations of experience, a means of situating individual and community in transnational space. Looking at how individuals use religious objects to make and maintain their worlds points to the act of display as a physical manifestation of experience. How such objects are utilized on, in, and around taxi cabs and food vending stands - my male and female informants' primary work sites - reveals the artistic creation of new sensitivities towards self and religion, highlighting the complexity of multiple gazes and responses in multi-cultural Muslim and broader non-Muslim spaces.
Keywords: America/USA; Islam; religious commodities; Sierra Leoneans; transnationalism
DOI: 10.1177/135918350100600105
Source：JOURNAL OF MATERIAL CULTURE
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