ABSTRACT
This chapter presents interest in how social agents navigate and make sense of the grand schemes' such as Islam, modernity or the secular in the actual living of everyday life. Clearly, Muslims are not Muslims all the time-but the vast scholarly and public focus on the hyper visible forms of Islam and Muslims leaves the impression that Muslims are all about Islam'. In modern Western societies, some emotional expressions are constructed as belonging to domains that are perceived as private, while others are socially acceptable in domains that are perceived as public. A focus on emotional expressions related to Islam proved particularly valuable in examining their everyday religion'. There is a secular imaginary' that governs how religion can be produced and performed, in which religion and religious emotions are demarcated as a primarily private and moral matter, pertaining to the private-not the public-realm, and concerning mainly issues of values, morality, emotions and personal belief.
