ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses young adult Muslims' experiences of Islam and of being, or being identified as, Muslim. By analysing their narratives about Islam and religious belonging, the aim is to offer an alternative way of describing the Islam of European Muslim youth. The research on European young adult Muslims seldom addresses their individual views on Islam. It is this majority of young adults with a Muslim household faith, who are not very devout, who are at the centre of attention in my research. The article aims to go beyond questions about whether the young adults hold certain normative beliefs, or practise rituals. The research is based on interviews with nine young adult Muslims aged 1719, each interviewed on three different occasions, apart from one who participated in one extended interview. The interviewees have a family background in Pakistan, Iran or various Arabic countries. Five women and four men were interviewed, four from Malm, five from Copenhagen.
