Islam, plurality, and an interface with the <i>already</i> emancipated

This article examines a production of Birmingham-based Soul City Arts to explore their interface with individuals as <i>already</i> emancipated. Muslims and non-Muslims come together through Soul City Arts experiences to be doing emancipatory work of reflection and action on their own. To accompany this work, Soul City Arts articulate immersive experiences with multiple communicative channels to allow for difference to survive in plurality. I introduce the channels I came to follow in <i>Waswasa</i> at the Birmingham Hippodrome, as part of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. This experience saw me reflecting on faith and spirituality with an enhanced understanding of difference amongst Muslims. I argue that such respect for individual differences, from Soul City Arts to me, and from me to them, is an outcome of framing us as already emancipated.