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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introducing The Poetics And Polemics Of Muslim Prayer In The United States -- Pressure To Conform And The Trouble With Public Prayer -- How Muslims Pray -- Reclaiming Public Space -- Praying In Fear -- Learning To Pray -- Spiritual Approaches To Prayer -- 2 Surveying Muslim Prayer In American Public Life -- Prayer In Non-muslim American Public Life -- Toward A Deeper Examination Of Prayer Practices Of Us Muslims -- I Struggle With Prayer -- Us Muslims In Defense Of Prayer Islamic Prayer And American Islamophobia -- 3 Islamic Prayer In Mainstream Us Television And Film -- Scholarly Research On Hollywood -- War On Terror Depictions Of Prayer -- Homeland: A Case Study In Islamic Prayer -- Islamic Prayer In Historical Dramas -- Islamic Prayer In Popular Tv Shows -- 4 Us Muslims' Creative Approaches To Prayer On The Big And Small Screen -- Muslim Prayer On Social Media -- Select Examples Of Muslim-produced Films And Tv Shows -- 5 Prayer And Religious Accommodations In Schools, Universities, And The Workplace -- Recent Survey Data -- Public Schools And Prayer Praying At American Universities -- Creating Reflection Rooms For All At Public Universities -- Uc Santa Cruz: The Challenge Of Opening Prayer Rooms In State Institutions -- Examining Differing Levels Of University Accommodations At Nonsectarian Private Universities -- Prayer In The Workplace -- The 1964 Civil Rights Act -- Recent Cases Involving Immigrants Of East African Origin -- 6 Religious Leaders And Prescriptions Around Muslim Prayer Practices -- Muslim Scholars Debate Prayer In The West -- Premodern Approaches To Modern Contexts -- Tradition Before Context Renewalist Approaches To Prayer -- Theoretical Versus Applied Islamic Ritual Practice -- 7 Prayer As Protest And Protest As Prayer -- Prayer As Protest In The American Context -- Muslim Public Prayers As Protest Around The World -- Interfaith Public Prayers