My book, Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention focuses on capital city mosque communities in Europe, in relation to urban cultures and histories, including the echoes of Jewish history. I am currently working on a second book, Passages: The Moving Lives of Jewish Berlin, uniting 21st century Jewish Berliners with 20th century Jewish Berliners through texts, walking interviews, and the topography of the city.
I have published in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Social Science & Medicine, Cultural Sociology, The American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Patterns of Prejudice, The International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Journal for the Social Scientific Study of Religion and the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion.
I also write for non-academic sources such as news media. Some of my recent work has been published in The Washington Post, Tablet Magazine, A Beautiful Perspective, Global Dialogue, Policy Trajectories, Discover Society, UN Dispatch and XoJane. In 2021, I received a Tablet Magazine journalism fellowship, for which I focused on Jewish life in Germany.
Interested in working together? Here's my contact information.
Elisabeth becker
elisabeth.becker-topkara@mwi.uni-heidelberg.de